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| | Eze 19:1 | "As for you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel
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| | Eze 19:2 | and say, 'What was your mother? A lioness among lions! She lay down among young lions, She reared her cubs.
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| | Eze 19:3 | 'When she brought up one of her cubs, He became a lion, And he learned to tear his prey; He devoured men.
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| | Eze 19:4 | 'Then nations heard about him; He was captured in their pit, And they brought him with hooks To the land of Egypt.
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| | Eze 19:5 | 'When she saw, as she waited, That her hope was lost, She took another of her cubs And made him a young lion.
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| | Eze 19:6 | 'And he walked about among the lions; He became a young lion, He learned to tear his prey; He devoured men.
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| | Eze 19:7 | 'He destroyed their fortified towers And laid waste their cities; And the land and its fullness were appalled Because of the sound of his roaring.
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| | Eze 19:8 | 'Then nations set against him On every side from their provinces, And they spread their net over him; He was captured in their pit.
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| | Eze 19:9 | 'They put him in a cage with hooks And brought 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.
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| | Eze 19:10 | 'Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, Planted by the waters; It was fruitful and full of branches Because of abundant waters.
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| | Eze 19:11 | 'And it had strong branches fit for scepters of rulers, And its height was raised above the clouds So that it was seen in its height with the mass of its branches.
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| | Eze 19:12 | 'But it was plucked up in fury; It was cast down to the ground; And the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branch was torn off So that it withered; The fire consumed it.
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| | Eze 19:13 | 'And now it is planted in the wilderness, In a dry and thirsty land.
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| | Eze 19:14 | 'And fire has gone out from its branch; It has consumed its shoots and fruit, So that there is not in it a strong branch, A scepter to rule.' " This is a lamentation, and has become a lamentation.
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| Scripture quotations taken from the NASB. |
