Ezekiel 19

Lexham English Bible

‘What a lioness was your mother
    among the lions.
She lay down in the midst of young lions,
    and she reared her lion cubs.
³ And she raised up one from her cubs;
    he became a fierce lion,
and he learned to tear prey;
    he ate^[b] humans.^[c]
4 And nations heard about him;
    in their pit he was caught,
and they brought him with hooks
    to the land of Egypt.
⁵ And she saw^[d] that she was waiting in vain;
    her hope was destroyed,
and she took one from her cubs,
    and she made him a fierce lion.
⁶ And he walked about in the midst of lions;
    he became a fierce lion,
and he learned to tear prey;
    he ate^[e] humans.^[f]
7 And he knew their widows,^[g]
    and he devastated their cities,
and the land was appalled, and everyone in it^[h]
    at the sound of his roar.
⁸ And nations set out against him
    from the surrounding provinces,^[i]
and they spread their net over him,
    and he was caught in their pit.
⁹ And they put him in a collar with hooks,
    and they brought him to the king of Babylon;
    they brought him into^[j] a prison,
so that his voice would not be heard any longer^[k]
    on the mountains of Israel.
¹⁰ Your mother was like the vine in your vineyard;^[l]
    planted fruitfully^[m] beside water,
and it was full of branches
    from many waters.^[n]
11 And she produced branches of strength^[o]
    to^[p] scepters of rulers;
its height became tall
    between^[q] thick foliage,
and it was seen^[r] because of its tallness
    among the abundance of its branches.
¹² But it was uprooted in rage;
    it was thrown to the earth,
and the east wind dried up its fruit;
    they were stripped off,
and its strong branch dried up;
    fire consumed it.
¹³ And now it is planted in the desert,
    in a dry and thirsty land.^[s]
14 And so fire has gone out from the stem of its branches;
    its fruit it has consumed,
and there was not in it a strong branch,^[t]
    a scepter for ruling.’”