bes - 19

bes@Ezekiel:19:1 @ Moreover do thou take up a lamentation for the prince of Israel,

bes@Ezekiel:19:2 @ and say, Why is thy mother become a whelp in the midst of lions? in the midst of lions she has multiplied her whelps.

bes@Ezekiel:19:3 @ And one of her whelps sprang forth; he became a lion, and learned to take prey, he devoured men.

bes@Ezekiel:19:4 @ And the nations heard a report (note:)Lit. against(:note) of him; he was caught in their Lit. destruction pit, and they brought him into the land of Egypt in chains.

bes@Ezekiel:19:5 @ And she saw that he was driven away from her, and her (note:)See Heb strkjv@11:1(:note) hope of him perished, and she took another of her whelps; she made him a lion.

bes@Ezekiel:19:6 @ And he went up and down in the midst of lions, he became a lion, and learned to take prey, he devoured men.

bes@Ezekiel:19:7 @ And he prowled in his boldness and laid waste their cities, and made the land desolate, and the fullness of it, by the voice of his roaring.

bes@Ezekiel:19:8 @ Then the nations set upon him from the countries round about, and they spread their nets upon him: he was taken in their pit.

bes@Ezekiel:19:9 @ And they put him in chains and in a cage, and he came to the king of Babylon; and he cast him into prison, that his voice should not be heard on the mountains of Israel.

bes@Ezekiel:19:10 @ Thy mother was as a vine and as a blossom on a pomegranate tree, planted by water: her fruit and her shoot abounded by reason of much water.

bes@Ezekiel:19:11 @ And she became (note:)A rod of strength(:note) a rod for a tribe of princes, and was elevated in her bulk in the midst of other trees, and she saw her bulk in the multitude of her branches.

bes@Ezekiel:19:12 @ But she was broken down in wrath, she was cast upon the ground, and the east wind dried up her choice branches: (note:)Lit. they were avenged(:note) vengeance came upon them, and the rod of her strength was withered; fire consumed it.

bes@Ezekiel:19:13 @ And now they have planted her in the wilderness, in a dry land.

bes@Ezekiel:19:14 @ And fire is gone out of a rod of her choice boughs, and has devoured her; and there was no rod of strength in her. Her (note:)See Hebrews.(:note) race is become a parable of lamentation, and it shall be for a lamentation.

Ezekiel 19