Ezekiel:19

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* And take up a weeping for the rulers of Israel , * and say : What [is ] your mother ? A lioness . She lay down among lions ; she multiplied her cubs among young lions . * And she brought up one of her cubs ; it became a strong lion and learned to tear the prey . It ate men . * The nations also heard of him . He was taken in their pit , and they brought him with chains to the land of Egypt . * And when she saw that she had waited [and ] that her hope was lost , she took another of her cubs and made him a strong lion . * And he went up and down among the lions ; he became a young lion and learned to tear the prey , [and ] ate men . * And he knew his widows , and he laid their cities waste , and the land and its fullness was desolated , from the sound of his roaring . * And the 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 a cage in chains , and brought him to the king of Babylon . They brought him into hunting nets , so that his voice should never again be heard on the mountains of Israel . * Your mother [is ] like a vine in your blood , planted by the waters ; she was fruitful and full of branches because of many waters . * And she [had ] strong rods for the scepters of those who bore rule , and her stature was exalted among the thick branches ; and it was seen in her height , with the multitude of her branches . * But she was plucked up in fury ; she was thrown down to the ground , and the east wind dried up her fruit . Her strong rods were broken and withered ; the fire burned them up . * And now she [is ] planted in the wilderness , in a dry and thirsty ground . * And fire has gone out from a rod of her branches , [which ] has licked up her fruit so that there is no strong rod in her to be a scepter to rule . This is a mourning and [shall be ] for a mourning .

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