Eze 19 | EngLXX | STEP | Moreover do you take up a lamentation for the prince of Israel,

‏ Ezekiel 19

1 Moreover do you take up a lamentation for the prince of Israel, 2 and say, Why is your mother become a whelp in the midst of lions? in the midst of lionsshe has multiplied her whelps. 3 And one of her whelps sprang forth; he became a lion, and learned to take prey, he devouredmen. 4 And the nations heard a report of him; he was caught in their pit, and they brought himinto the land of Egypt in chains. 5 And she saw that he was driven away from her,and her hopeof him perished, and she took another of her whelps; she made him a lion. 6 And he went up and down in the midst of lions, he became a lion, and learned to take prey,he devoured men. 7 And he prowled in his boldness and laid waste their cities, and made the land desolate,and the fullness of it, by the voice of his roaring. 8 Then the nations set upon him from the countries round about, and they spread their netsupon him: he was taken in their pit. 9 And they put him in chains and in a cage,and he came to the king of Babylon; and he cast him into prison, that his voice should notbe heard on the mountains of Israel. 10 Your mother was as a vine and as a blossom on a pomegranate tree, planted by water: herfruit and her shoot abounded by reason of much water. 11 And she became a rod for a tribe of princes, and was elevated in her bulk in the midstofother trees, and she saw her bulk in the multitude of her branches. 12 But she was broken down in wrath, she was cast upon the ground, and the east wind driedup her choicebranches: vengeance came upon them, and the rod of her strength was withered; fire consumedit. 13 And now they have planted her in the wilderness, in a dry land. 14 And fire is gone out of a rod of her choiceboughs, and has devoured her; and there was no rod of strength in her. Her race is become aparable of lamentation, and it shall be for a lamentation.