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Ezekiel 19

Lament for the Princes of Israel

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"As for you, take up a  alamentation for the  bprinces of Israel

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and say, ` 1What was your mother? A lioness among lions! She lay down among young lions, She reared her cubs.

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`When she brought up one of her cubs, He became a lion, And he learned to tear his prey; He devoured men.

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`Then nations heard about him; He was captured in their pit, And they  abrought him with hooks To the land of Egypt.

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`When she saw, as she waited, That her hope was lost, She took  1another of her cubs And made him a young lion.

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`And he  awalked about among the lions; He became a young lion, He learned to tear his prey; He devoured men.

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`He  1destroyed their  2fortified towers And laid waste their cities; And the land and its fullness were appalled Because of the sound of his roaring.

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`Then  anations set against him On every side from their provinces, And they spread their net over him; He was captured in their pit.

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aThey put him in a cage with hooks And  bbrought him to the king of Babylon; They brought him in hunting nets So that his voice would be heard no more On the mountains of Israel.

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`Your mother was  alike a vine in your  1vineyard, Planted by the waters; It was fruitful and full of branches Because of abundant waters.

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`And it had  1 astrong branches fit for scepters of rulers, And its  bheight was raised above the clouds So that it was seen in its height with the mass of its branches.

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`But it was  aplucked up in fury; It was  bcast down to the ground; And the  ceast wind dried up its fruit. Its  1 dstrong branch  2was torn off So that  3it withered; The fire consumed it.

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`And now it is planted in the  awilderness, In a dry and thirsty land.

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`And  afire has gone out from its branch; It has consumed its shoots and fruit, So that there is not in it a  1strong branch, A scepter to rule.' " This is a lamentation, and has become a lamentation.



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