Ezekiel 19

Revised Geneva Translation

19 “Also, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

² “and say, ‘Why did your mother, a lioness, lay down among the lions? She nourished her young ones among the lion’s whelps.

³ ‘And she brought up one of her whelps, and it became a lion. It learned to catch the prey, and it devoured men.

⁴ ‘The nations also heard of him. He was taken in their nets, and they brought him to the land of Egypt in chains.

⁵ ‘Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, she took another of her whelps and made him a lion.

⁶ ‘which went among the lions, and became a lion, and learned to catch prey. He devoured men,

⁷ ‘and he knew their widows, and he destroyed their cities, and the land was wasted, and all that was in it, by the noise of his roaring.

⁸ ‘Then the nations set against him on every side of the countries and laid their nets for him. So, he was taken in their pit.

⁹ ‘And they put him in prison, in chains, and brought him to the king of Babel. They put him in a stronghold, so that his voice would no longer be heard upon the mountains of Israel.

¹⁰ ‘Your mother is like a vine in your blood, planted by the waters. She brought forth fruit and branches by the abundant waters,

¹¹ ‘and she had strong rods for the scepters of those who bear rule. And her stature was exalted among the branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.

¹² ‘But she was plucked up in wrath. She was cast down to the ground, and the East wind dried up her fruit. Her branches were broken and withered. The fire consumed the rod of her strength.

¹³ ‘And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.

¹⁴ ‘And fire has gone out of a rod of her branches, which has devoured her fruit, so that she has no strong rod, no ruling scepter.’” This is a lamentation and shall be a lamentation.