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Ezekiel 19 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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Israel Degraded
Mourning for Degraded Israel

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:1 - “Moreover take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 19:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:2 - “and say:

‘What is your mother? A lioness:
She lay down among the lions;
Among the young lions she nourished her cubs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:3 - She brought up one of her cubs,
And he became a young lion;
He learned to catch prey,
And he devoured men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:4 - The nations also heard of him;
He was trapped in their pit,
And they brought him with chains to the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:5 - ‘When she saw that she waited, that her hope was lost,
She took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:6 - He roved among the lions,
And became a young lion;
He learned to catch prey;
He devoured men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:7 - He knew their desolate places,[fn]
And laid waste their cities;
The land with its fullness was desolated
By the noise of his roaring.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:8 - Then the nations set against him from the provinces on every side,
And spread their net over him;
He was trapped in their pit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:9 - They put him in a cage with chains,
And brought him to the king of Babylon;
They brought him in nets,
That his voice should no longer be heard on the mountains of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:10 - ‘Your mother was like a vine in your bloodline,[fn]
Planted by the waters,
Fruitful and full of branches
Because of many waters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:11 - She had strong branches for scepters of rulers.
She towered in stature above the thick branches,
And was seen in her height amid the dense foliage.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:12 - But she was plucked up in fury,
She was cast down to the ground,
And the east wind dried her fruit.
Her strong branches were broken and withered;
The fire consumed them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:13 - And now she is planted in the wilderness,
In a dry and thirsty land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:14 - Fire has come out from a rod of her branches
And devoured her fruit,
So that she has no strong branch— a scepter for ruling.’ ”
This is a lamentation, and has become a lamentation.
See the NKJV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NKJV Footnotes
Septuagint reads He stood in insolence; Targum reads He destroyed its palaces; Vulgate reads He learned to make widows.
Literally blood, following Masoretic Text, Syriac, and Vulgate; Septuagint reads like a flower on a pomegranate tree; Targum reads in your likeness.
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Ezekiel Chapter 19 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New Living Translation New International Version English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras