Book of Ezekiel, Chapter 19
Chapter 19 of Ezekiel
¶ What a lioness was your mother
among lions!
She couched in the midst of young lions,
rearing her whelps.
he became a young lion,
and he learned to catch prey;
he devoured men.
he was taken in their pit;
and they brought him with hooks
to the land of Egypt.
that her hope was lost,
she took another of her whelps
and made him a young lion.
he became a young lion,
and he learned to catch prey;
he devoured men.
and laid waste their cities;
and the land was appalled and all who were in it
at the sound of his roaring.
snares[c] on every side;
they spread their net over him;
he was taken in their pit.
and brought him to the king of Babylon;
they brought him into custody,
that his voice should no more be heard
upon the mountains of Israel.
transplanted by the water,
fruitful and full of branches
by reason of abundant water.
a ruler’s scepter;
it towered aloft
among the thick boughs;
it was seen in its height
with the mass of its branches.
cast down to the ground;
the east wind dried it up;
its fruit was stripped off,
its strong stem was withered;
the fire consumed it.
in a dry and thirsty land.
has consumed its branches and fruit,
so that there remains in it no strong stem,
no scepter for a ruler.
¶ This is a lamentation, and has become a lamentation.FOOTNOTES
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