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Ezekiel 19
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Chapter 19
A lamentation over the rulers of Israel
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‘As for you, raise a dirge for the princes of Israel.
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Say: “What was your mother? A lioness surrounded by lions; lying among the cubs she nursed her whelps.
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She reared one of her whelps and it grew into a young lion; he learnt to tear his prey; he became a man-eater.
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The nations combined against him; he was caught in their pit; they dragged him off with hooks to the land of Egypt.[*a]
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Her expectation thwarted, her hope dashed, she took another of her whelps and made a young lion of him.
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He grew to prowl with other lions, and grew into a young lion; he learned to tear his prey; he became a man-eater.
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He stormed their palaces, and sacked their cities; the country and its inhabitants were alarmed by the sound of his roars.
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The nations marched out against him from the surrounding provinces; they spread their net for him; he was caught in their pit.
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They caged him with hooks (they took him to the king of Babylon); they took him into a fortress, so that his voice could never again be heard on the mountains of Israel.[*b]
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“Your mother was like a vine planted beside the water, fruitful and leafy, because the water flowed so full.
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It put out strong branches that turned to royal sceptres; they reached up, reached so high they touched the clouds; men admired them for their height and their thick foliage.
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But it was rooted up and thrown on the ground; the east wind dried up its fruit; it was broken up; its strong branch withered away; fire consumed it all.
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Now it has been transplanted into the desert, the waterless country of drought;
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fire has come out of its stem, consumed its branches and fruit. No more strong branch for her, no more kingly sceptre.” This is a dirge; it was used as such.
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