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| | Eze 19:1 | And you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
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| | Eze 19:2 | and say: What a lioness was your mother among lions! She couched in the midst of young lions, rearing her whelps.
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| | Eze 19:3 | And she brought up one of her whelps; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey; he devoured men.
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| | Eze 19:4 | The nations sounded an alarm against him; he was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
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| | Eze 19:5 | When she saw that she was baffled, that her hope was lost, she took another of her whelps and made him a young lion.
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| | Eze 19:6 | He prowled among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey; he devoured men.
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| | Eze 19:7 | And he ravaged their strongholds, and laid waste their cities; and the land was appalled and all who were in it at the sound of his roaring.
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| | Eze 19:8 | Then the nations set against him snares on every side; they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.
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| | Eze 19:9 | With hooks they put him in a cage, and brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into custody, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.
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| | Eze 19:10 | Your mother was like a vine in a vineyard transplanted by the water, fruitful and full of branches by reason of abundant water.
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| | Eze 19:11 | Its strongest stem became a ruler's scepter; it towered aloft among the thick boughs; it was seen in its height with the mass of its branches.
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| | Eze 19:12 | But the vine was plucked up in fury, cast down to the ground; the east wind dried it up; its fruit was stripped off, its strong stem was withered; the fire consumed it.
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| | Eze 19:13 | Now it is transplanted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.
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| | Eze 19:14 | And fire has gone out from its stem, has consumed its branches and fruit, so that there remains in it no strong stem, no scepter for a ruler. This is a lamentation, and has become a lamentation.
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