Ezekiel:19

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* And thou ,––do thou lift up a lamentation for the princes of Israel , * And say , What a noble lioness was thy mother ! among lions did she lie down , in the midst of young lions did she raise her whelps ! * And she brought up one of her whelps : he became a young lion , and he learned to tear in pieces the prey ; men he devoured . * And when nations heard of him , he was caught in their pit , and they brought him with nose –rings unto the land of Egypt . * Now when she saw that she had long waited , her hope was lost , she took another one of her whelps , and made him a young lion . * And he went up and down in the midst of lions , he became a young lion ; and he learned to tear in pieces the prey ; even men he devoured . * And he broke down their palaces , and their cities laid he in ruins : and then was terrified the land , with all that filled it , because of the noise of his roaring . * Then set themselves the nations against him on every side from the provinces ; and they spread over him their net : in their pit was he caught . * And they put him in a cage with nose –rings , and they brought him to the king of Babylon : they brought him into strong –holds , in order that his voice should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel . * Thy mother was like a vine , if I compare thee to aught , planted by the waters : fruitful and full of boughs was she by reason of many waters . * And she had strong branches for the sceptres of rulers , and her stature grew up high between the thick –branched , and she was seen through her height by means of the multitude of her tendrils . * But she was plucked up in fury , to the ground was she cast down , and the east wind dried up her fruit : and torn off and dried up were her strong branches , a fire consumed them . * And now is she planted in the wilderness , in a dry and thirsty land . * And fire is gone out of a branch of her boughs , and hath devoured her fruit , so that there is no more on her a strong branch for a sceptre to rule . This is a lamentation , and it is become a lamentation .

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