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Ezekiel 19 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

A Lament for the Princes of Israel

Eze 19:1

Eze 19:1And you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

Eze 19:2

Eze 19:2and say:
What was your mother? A lioness!
Among lions she crouched;
in the midst of young lions
she reared her cubs.

Eze 19:3

Eze 19:3And she brought up one of her cubs;
he became a young lion,
and he learned to catch prey;
he devoured men.

Eze 19:4

Eze 19:4The nations heard about him;
he was caught in their pit,
and they brought him with hooks
to the land of Egypt.

Eze 19:5

Eze 19:5When she saw that she waited in vain,
that her hope was lost,
she took another of her cubs
and made him a young lion.

Eze 19:6

Eze 19:6He prowled among the lions;
he became a young lion,
and he learned to catch prey;
he devoured men,

Eze 19:7

Eze 19:7and seized[fn] their widows.
He laid waste their cities,
and the land was appalled and all who were in it
at the sound of his roaring.

Eze 19:8

Eze 19:8Then the nations set against him
from provinces on every side;
they spread their net over him;
he was taken in their pit.

Eze 19:9

Eze 19:9With hooks they put him in a cage[fn]
and brought him to the king of Babylon;
they brought him into custody,
that his voice should no more be heard
on the mountains of Israel.

Eze 19:10

Eze 19:10Your mother was like a vine in a vineyard[fn]
planted by the water,
fruitful and full of branches
by reason of abundant water.

Eze 19:11

Eze 19:11Its strong stems became
rulers’ scepters;
it towered aloft
among the thick boughs;[fn]
it was seen in its height
with the mass of its branches.

Eze 19:12

Eze 19:12But the vine was plucked up in fury,
cast down to the ground;
the east wind dried up its fruit;
they were stripped off and withered.
As for its strong stem,
fire consumed it.

Eze 19:13

Eze 19:13Now it is planted in the wilderness,
in a dry and thirsty land.

Eze 19:14

Eze 19:14And fire has gone out from the stem of its shoots,
has consumed its fruit,
so that there remains in it no strong stem,
no scepter for ruling. This is a lamentation and has become a lamentation.
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Hebrew knew
Or in a wooden collar
Some Hebrew manuscripts; most Hebrew manuscripts in your blood
Or the clouds
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