19Ezekiel 19

1Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,Select Ezekiel 19:1

2And say, What [is] thy mother: A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.Select Ezekiel 19:2

3And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.Select Ezekiel 19:3

4The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains to the land of Egypt.Select Ezekiel 19:4

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.Select Ezekiel 19:5

6And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, [and] devoured men.Select Ezekiel 19:6

7And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fullness of it, by the noise of his roaring.Select Ezekiel 19:7

8Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.Select Ezekiel 19:8

9And they put him in custody in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.Select Ezekiel 19:9

10Thy mother [is] like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.Select Ezekiel 19:10

11And she had strong rods for the scepters of them that bore rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her hight with the multitude of her branches.Select Ezekiel 19:11

12But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.Select Ezekiel 19:12

13And now she [is] planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.Select Ezekiel 19:13

14And fire hath gone out of a rod of her branches, [which] hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod [to be] a scepter to rule. This [is] a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.Select Ezekiel 19:14