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Ezekiel 19 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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CHAPTER 19
Israel Degraded
Mourning for Degraded Israel
1 “Moreover take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, 2 and say:
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​‘​What is your mother? A lioness:
​​She lay down among the lions;
​​Among the young lions she nourished her cubs.
3 ​​She brought up one of her cubs,
​​And he became a young lion;
​​He learned to catch prey,
​​And he devoured men.
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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5 ​‘​When she saw that she waited, that her hope was lost,
​​She took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.
6 ​​He roved among the lions,
​​And became a young lion;
​​He learned to catch prey;
​​He devoured men.
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.
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.
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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10 ​‘​Your mother was like a vine in your bloodline,[fn]
​​Planted by the waters,
​​Fruitful and full of branches
​​Because of many waters.
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.
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.
13 ​​And now she is planted in the wilderness,
​​In a dry and thirsty land.
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.’ ”
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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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