Ézéquiel

  • Dirge for the Princes of Israel

  • |Ézéquiel 19:1| "As for you, take up a dirge (funeral poem to be sung) for the princes of Israel

  • |Ézéquiel 19:2| and say,
    'What was your mother [Jerusalem and Judah]? A lioness among lions! She lay down among young lions, She reared her cubs.


  • |Ézéquiel 19:3| 'When she [the royal mother-city] brought up [Jehoahaz] one of her cubs, He became a [young] lion, And he learned to catch and tear the prey; He devoured men.


  • |Ézéquiel 19:4| 'The nations heard about him; He was captured in their pit, And they brought him with hooks To the land of Egypt.


  • |Ézéquiel 19:5| 'When she saw, as she waited, That her hope was lost, She took1 another of her cubs And made him a young lion.


  • |Ézéquiel 19:6| 'And he moved among the lions; He became a young lion, He learned to tear the prey; He devoured men.


  • |Ézéquiel 19:7| 'He destroyed their palaces And he flattened their cities; And the land and all who were in it were appalled By the sound of his roaring.


  • |Ézéquiel 19:8| 'Then the nations set against him (the king) On every side from the provinces, And they spread their net over him; He was captured in their pit.


  • |Ézéquiel 19:9| 'They put him in a cage with hooks and chains And brought 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.


  • |Ézéquiel 19:10| 'Your mother [Jerusalem] was like a vine in your2 vineyard, Planted by the waters; It was fruitful and full of branches Because of abundant water.



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