Ezekiel 19 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

Israel Degraded

Mourning for Degraded Israel

Eze 19:1“Moreover take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

Eze 19:2“and say:

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

Eze 19:3

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

Eze 19:4

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

Eze 19:5

Eze 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.

Eze 19:6

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

Eze 19:7

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

Eze 19:8

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

Eze 19:9

Eze 19:9They 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.

Eze 19:10

Eze 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.

Eze 19:11

Eze 19:11She 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.

Eze 19:12

Eze 19:12But 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.

Eze 19:13

Eze 19:13And now she is planted in the wilderness,
In a dry and thirsty land.

Eze 19:14

Eze 19:14Fire 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.

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NKJV Footnotes

(19:7)

Septuagint reads He stood in insolence; Targum reads He destroyed its palaces; Vulgate reads He learned to make widows.

(19:10)

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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