nsb - Ezekiel:19

nsb@Ezekiel:19:1 @ »Take up a song of grief concerning the princes of Israel.

nsb@Ezekiel:19:2 @ »Say: What a lioness was your mother among the lions! She lay down among the young lions and reared her cubs.

nsb@Ezekiel:19:3 @ »She brought up one of her cubs, and he became a strong lion. He learned to tear the prey and he devoured men.

nsb@Ezekiel:19:4 @ The nations heard about him. He was trapped in their pit. They led him with hooks to the land of Egypt.

nsb@Ezekiel:19:5 @ »When she saw her hope unfulfilled, her expectation gone, she took another of her cubs and made him a strong lion.

nsb@Ezekiel:19:6 @ »He prowled among the lions, for he was now a strong lion. He learned to tear the prey and he devoured men.

nsb@Ezekiel:19:7 @ »He broke down their strongholds and devastated their towns. His roaring terrified the residents of the land.

nsb@Ezekiel:19:8 @ »Then the nations came against him, those from regions round about. They spread their net for him, and he was trapped in their pit.

nsb@Ezekiel:19:9 @ »With hooks they pulled him into a cage and brought him to the king of Babylon. They put him in prison. Therefore his roar was heard no longer on the mountains of Israel.

nsb@Ezekiel:19:10 @ »Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard planted by the water. It was fruitful and full of branches because of abundant water.

nsb@Ezekiel:19:11 @ »Its branches were strong and fit for a rulers scepter. It towered high above the thick foliage, conspicuous for its height and for its many branches.

nsb@Ezekiel:19:12 @ »It was uprooted in fury and thrown to the ground. The east wind made it shrivel. It was stripped of its fruit. Its strong branches withered and fire consumed them.

nsb@Ezekiel:19:13 @ »Now it is planted in the desert, in a dry and thirsty land.

nsb@Ezekiel:19:14 @ »Fire spread from one of its main branches and consumed its fruit. No strong branch is left on it fit for a rulers scepter. This is a song of grief and is to be used as a song of grief.«