Book 14 : NEVIIM - EZEKIEL - Chapter 019
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Moreover, take thou up a lamentation for the princes of
Israel
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and say: How was thy mother a lioness; among lions she
couched, in the midst of the young lions she reared her whelps
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And she brought up one of her whelps, he became a young
lion; and he learned to catch the prey, he devoured men
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Then the nations assembled against him, he was taken in
their pit; and they brought him with hooks unto the land of Egypt
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Now when she saw that she was disappointed, and her hope
was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion
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And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young
lion; and he learned to catch the prey, he devoured men
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And he knew their castles, and laid waste their cities; and
the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, because of the noise of his
roaring
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Then the nations cried out against him on every side from
the provinces; and they spread their net over him, he was taken in their pit
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And they put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to
the king of Babylon; that they might bring him into strongholds, so that his
voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel
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Thy mother was like a vine, in thy likeness, planted by
the waters; she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters
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And she had strong rods to be sceptres for them that bore
rule; and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she was seen in
her height with the multitude of her tendrils
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But 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 off
and withered, the fire consumed her
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And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and
thirsty ground
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And fire is gone out of the rod of her branches, it hath
devoured her fruit, so that there is in her no strong rod to be a sceptre to
rule.' This is a lamentation, and it was for a lamentation
Book 14 : NEVIIM - EZEKIEL - Chapter 019
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