Ezekiel:19

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* Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the (note :)That is , Jehoahaz and Jehoiakim , Josiah 's sons , who for their pride and cruelty are compared to lions .(:note ) princes of Israel , * And say , What [is ] thy (note :)That is Jehoahaz 's mother , or Jerusalem .(:note ) mother ? A lioness : she lay down among lions , she nourished her whelps among young lions . * And she brought vp one of her whelps , and it became a lyon , and it learned to catch the praye , and it deuoured men . * The (note :)By Pharaoh Nebo king of Egypt , ( 2Ki_23:33 ).(:note ) nations also heard of him ; he was taken in their pit , and they brought him with chains to the land of Egypt . * Now when she saw that she had waited , [and ] her hope was lost , then she took another of her (note :)Which was Jehoiakim .(:note ) whelps , [and ] made him a young lion . * And he went up and down among the lions , he became a young lion , and learned to catch the prey , [and ] devoured (note :)He slew the prophets and them that feared God and ravished their wives .(:note ) men . * And he knew their widowes , &amp ; he destroyed their cities , and the land was wasted , and all that was therein by the noyse of his roaring . * Then the (note :)Nebuchadnezzar with his great army which was gathered from various nations .(:note ) nations set against him on every side from the provinces , and spread their net over him : he was taken in their pit . * And they put him in prison and in chaines , and brought him to the King of Babel , and they put him in holdes , that his voyce should no more be heard vpon the mountaines of Israel . * Thy (note :)He speaks this in the reproach of this wicked king , in whose blood , that is in the race of his predecessors , Jerusalem would have been blessed according to God 's promise and flourished as a fruitful vine .(:note ) mother [is ] like a vine in thy blood , planted by the waters : she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters . * And she had strong rods for the scepters of them that beare rule , and her stature was exalted among the branches , and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches . * But she was plucked up in fury , she was cast down to the ground , and the (note :)Meaning , that the Chaldeans would destroy them as the east wind does the fruit of the vine .(:note ) east wind dried up her fruit : her strong rods were broken and withered ; the fire consumed them . * And now she is planted in the wildernes in a drie and thirstie ground . * And fire hath gone out (note :)Destruction is come by Zedekiah , who was the opportunity for this rebellion .(:note ) of a rod of her branches , [which ] hath devoured her fruit , so that she hath no strong rod [to be ] a sceptre to rule . This [is ] a lamentation , and shall be for a lamentation .

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