| The Holy Bible: King James Version. 2000. |
The Book of the Prophet |
| Ezekiel | | 19 |
A Lamentation for the Princes of Israel |
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Moreover, take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
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and say,
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What is thy mother? A lioness: |
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she lay down among lions, |
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she nourished her whelps |
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among young lions. |
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And she brought up one of her whelps:
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it became a young lion, |
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and it learned to catch the prey; |
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it devoured men. |
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The nations also heard of him;
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he was taken in their pit, |
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and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt. |
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Now when she saw that she had waited,
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and her hope was lost, |
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then she took another of her whelps, |
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and made him a young lion. |
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And he went up and down among the lions,
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he became a young lion, |
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and learned to catch the prey, |
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and devoured men. |
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And he knew their desolate palaces,
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and he laid waste their cities; |
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and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, |
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by the noise of his roaring. |
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Then the nations set against him
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on every side from the provinces, |
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and spread their net over him: |
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he was taken in their pit. |
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And they put him in ward in chains,
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and brought him to the king of Babylon: |
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they brought him into holds, |
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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,
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planted by the waters: |
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she was fruitful and full of branches |
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by reason of many waters. |
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And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule,
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and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, |
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and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches. |
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But she was plucked up in fury,
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she was cast down to the ground, |
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and the east wind dried up her fruit: |
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her strong rods were broken and withered; |
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the fire consumed them. |
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And now she is planted in the wilderness,
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in a dry and thirsty ground. |
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And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches,
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which hath devoured her fruit, |
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so that she hath no strong rod |
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to be a sceptre to rule. |
¶ This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
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