Ezekiel:19

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* And take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel , * and thou shalt say , How hast thy mother , the lioness , lain down among the lions ? She raised her whelps among the young lions . * And she brought up one of her whelps ; it became a young lion , and it learned to catch the prey and to devour men . * The Gentiles also heard of him ; he was taken in their trap , and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt . * Now when [she saw ] that she had waited a long time [and ] her hope was being lost , then she took another of her 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 men . * And he knew their widows , and he laid waste their cities ; and the land was desolate , and the fullness thereof , by the voice of his roaring . * Then the Gentiles 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 in chains and brought him to the king of Babylon : they brought him into fortresses that his voice should no longer be heard upon the mountains of Israel . * Thy mother [was ] like a vine in thy blood , planted by the waters , bearing fruit and spreading forth branches by reason of the many waters . * And she had strong rods for the sceptres of those that bore rule , and her stature was exalted among the thick branches , and she appeared in her height and with the multitude of her branches . * But she was plucked up in fury , she was cast down to the ground , and the east wind dried up her fruit ; [her branches ] were broken , and she withered ; fire consumed the rod of her strength . * And now she [is ] planted in the wilderness in a dry and thirsty ground . * And fire is gone out of the rod from her branches , [which ] has devoured her fruit , so that no strong rod [to be ] a sceptre to rule has remained in her . This [is ] a lamentation and shall be for a lamentation .:

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