Ezekiel Chapter 19

• Ezekiel 19:1
  Ezekiel.
• Ezekiel 19:2
  “Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
• Ezekiel 19:3
  and say, ‘What was your mother? A lioness. She couched among lions, in the middle of the young lions she nourished her cubs.
• Ezekiel 19:4
  She brought up one of her cubs. He became a young lion. He learned to catch the prey. He devoured men.
• Ezekiel 19:5
  The nations also heard of him. He was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
• Ezekiel 19:6
  “‘Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her cubs, and made him a young lion.
• Ezekiel 19:7
  He went up and down among the lions. He became a young lion. He learned to catch the prey. He devoured men.
• Ezekiel 19:8
  He knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities. The land was desolate with its fullness, because of the noise of his roaring.
• Ezekiel 19:9
  Then the nations attacked him on every side from the provinces. They spread their net over him. He was taken in their pit.
• Ezekiel 19:10
  They put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon. They brought him into strongholds, so that his voice should no more be hear...
• Ezekiel 19:11
  “‘Your mother was like a vine in your blood, planted by the waters. It was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
• Ezekiel 19:12
  It had strong branches for the scepters of those who ruled. Their stature was exalted among the thick boughs. They were seen in their height with the ...
• Ezekiel 19:13
  But it was plucked up in fury. It was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branches were broken off and withered....
• Ezekiel 19:14
  Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.
• Ezekiel 19:15
  Fire has gone out of its branches. It has devoured its fruit, so that there is in it no strong branch to be a scepter to rule.’ This is a lamentation,...