Ezekiel:19
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Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel ,
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And say ,
What is thy mother ?
A lioness :
she lay down among lions ,
she nourished her whelps among young lions .
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And she brought up one of her whelps :
it became a young lion ,
and it learned to catch the prey ;
it devoured men .
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The nations also heard of him ;
he was taken in their pit ,
and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt .
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Now when she saw that she had waited ,
and her hope was lost ,
then she took another of her whelps ,
and made him a young lion .
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And he went up and down among the lions ,
he became a young lion ,
and learned to catch the prey ,
and devoured men .
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And he knew their desolate palaces ,
and he laid waste their cities ;
and the land was desolate ,
and the fulness thereof ,
by the noise of his roaring .
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Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces ,
and spread their net over him :
he was taken in their pit .
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And they put him in ward in chains ,
and brought him to the king of Babylon :
they brought him into holds ,
that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel .
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Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood ,
planted by the waters :
she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters .
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And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule ,
and her stature was exalted among the thick branches ,
and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches .
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But she was plucked up in fury ,
she was cast down to the ground ,
and the east wind dried up her fruit :
her strong rods were broken and withered ;
the fire consumed them .
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And now she is planted in the wilderness ,
in a dry and thirsty ground .
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And fire is gone out 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 .