h.
Through Ezekiel's lamentation for the princes of Israel
19:1-14
Ezek. 19
:1
19:1
But you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
Ezek. 19
:2
19:2
And say,
What was your mother?
A lioness among lions.
She lay in the midst of young lions;
She brought up her whelps.
Ezek. 19
:3
19:3
When she raised up
aone of her whelps,
He became a young lion;
And he learned to take prey;
He devoured men.
Ezek. 19
:4
19:4
Then the nations heard of him;
He was captured in their pit,
And they
abrought him with hooks
To the land of Egypt.
Ezek. 19
:5
19:5
When she saw that she had waited,
That her hope was lost,
She took
aanother one of her whelps;
She made him a young lion.
Ezek. 19
:6
19:6
And he went about among the lions;
He became a young lion.
And he learned to take prey;
He devoured men.
Ezek. 19
:7
19:7
And he
1destroyed their citadels
And laid waste their cities;
And the land and its fullness were horrified
At the sound of his roaring.
Ezek. 19
:8
19:8
Then the nations set against him
All around from the provinces
And spread their net over him;
He was captured in their pit.
Ezek. 19
:9
19:9
And they put him in a cage with hooks
And
abrought him to the king of Babylon —
They brought him into strongholds —
That his voice would no longer be heard
Upon the mountains of Israel.
Ezek. 19
:10
19:10
Your mother was like a
avine in your
1vineyard,
Transplanted beside the waters;
It was fruitful and full of branches
Because of abundant waters.
Ezek. 19
:11
19:11
And it had strong branches
For scepters of those who rule;
And its height was exalted among the leafy boughs,
And it was visible in its height because of the multitude of its branches.
Ezek. 19
:12
19:12
But it was plucked up in wrath;
It was cast down to the ground;
And the east wind dried up its fruit;
Its strong branch was broken off and it withered;
The
afire consumed it.
Ezek. 19
:13
19:13
And now it is transplanted in the wilderness,
In a dry and thirsty land.
Ezek. 19
:14
19:14
And fire has gone forth from
its branch;
It has consumed its offshoots
and its fruit,
So that there is
ano strong branch in it,
A scepter to rule.
This is a lamentation and it has become a lamentation.
