Ezekiel:19

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* "Moreover take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel , * and say : "What is your mother ? A lioness : She lay down among the lions ; Among the young lions she nourished her cubs . * She brought up one of her cubs , And he became a young lion ; He learned to catch prey , And he devoured men . * The nations also heard of him ; He was trapped in their pit , And they brought him with chains to the land of Egypt . * "When she saw that she waited , that her hope was lost , She took another of her cubs and made him a young lion . * He roved among the lions , And became a young lion ; He learned to catch prey ; He devoured men . * He knew their desolate places , And laid waste their cities ; The land with its fullness was desolated By the noise of his roaring . * Then the nations set against him from the provinces on every side , And spread their net over him ; He was trapped in their pit . * They put him in a cage with chains , And brought him to the king of Babylon ; They brought him in nets , That his voice should no longer be heard on the mountains of Israel . * "Your mother was like a vine in your bloodline , Planted by the waters , Fruitful and full of branches Because of many waters . * She had strong branches for scepters of rulers . She towered in stature above the thick branches , And was seen in her height amid the dense foliage . * But she was plucked up in fury , She was cast down to the ground , And the east wind dried her fruit . Her strong branches were broken and withered ; The fire consumed them . * And now she is planted in the wilderness , In a dry and thirsty land . * Fire has come out from a rod of her branches And devoured her fruit , So that she has no strong branch -- a scepter for ruling ."' This is a lamentation , and has become a lamentation .

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