Ezekiel 19
- 1Moreover, take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
- 2and say, What was thy mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her whelps.
- 3And she brought up one of her whelps: he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.
- 4The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks unto the land of Egypt.
- 5Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.
- 6And he went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.
- 7And he knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, because of the noise of his roaring.
- 8Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces; and they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.
- 9And they put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into strongholds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.
- 10Thy mother was like a vine, in thy blood, planted by the waters: it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
- 11And it had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and their stature was exalted among the thick boughs, and they were seen in [ their height with the multitude of their branches.
- 12But it was plucked up in fury, it was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit: its strong rods were broken off and withered; the fire consumed them.
- 13And now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.
- 14And fire is gone out of the rods of its branches, it hath devoured its fruit, so that there is in it no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
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