Ezekiel 19
Lament for the Princes of Israel
1“As for you, take up a alamentation for the bprinces of Israel 2and say, ‘ ▼▼ Or Why did your mother, a lioness, lie down among lions; among young lions rear her cubs?
What was your mother?A lioness among lions!
She lay down among young lions,
She reared her cubs.
3‘When she brought up one of her cubs,
He became a lion,
And he learned to tear his prey;
He devoured men.
4‘Then nations heard about him;
He was captured in their pit,
And they dbrought him with hooks
To the land of Egypt.
5‘When she saw, as she waited,
That her hope was lost,
She took ▼
▼ Lit one
another of her cubsAnd made him a young lion.
6‘And he fwalked about among the lions;
He became a young lion,
He learned to tear his prey;
He devoured men.
7‘He ▼
▼ So Targum; M.T. knew
destroyed their ▼▼ Or widows
fortified towersAnd laid waste their cities;
And the land and its fullness were appalled
Because of the sound of his roaring.
8‘Then inations set against him
On every side from their provinces,
And they spread their net over him;
He was captured in their pit.
9‘ jThey put him in a cage with hooks
And kbrought him to the king of Babylon;
They brought him in hunting nets
So that his voice would be heard no more
On the mountains of Israel.
10‘Your mother was llike a vine in your ▼
▼ So with some ancient mss; M.T. blood
vineyard,Planted by the waters;
It was fruitful and full of branches
Because of abundant waters.
11‘And it had ▼
▼ Lit rods of strength
,
ostrong branches fit for scepters of rulers,And its pheight was raised above the clouds
So that it was seen in its height with the mass of its branches.
12‘But it was qplucked up in fury;
It was rcast down to the ground;
And the seast wind dried up its fruit.
Its ▼
▼ Lit rods of her strength
,
ustrong branch ▼▼ So Gr; M.T. they were
was torn offSo that ▼
▼ So Gr; M.T. they
it withered;The fire consumed it.
13‘And now it is planted in the xwilderness,
In a dry and thirsty land.
14‘And yfire has gone out from its branch;
It has consumed its shoots and fruit,
So that there is not in it a ▼
▼ Lit rod of strength
strong branch,A scepter to rule.’”
This is a lamentation, and has become a lamentation.
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