Ezekiel 19:1-9

A Lament for the Princes of Israel

1And you, atake up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, 2and say:

What was your mother? bA lioness!
Among lions she crouched;
in the midst of young lions
she reared her cubs.
3And she brought up one of her cubs;
che became a young lion,
dand he learned to catch prey;
he devoured men.
4The nations heard about him;
ehe was caught in their pit,
fand they brought him with hooks
to the land of Egypt.
5When she saw that she waited in vain,
that her hope was lost,
gshe took another of her cubs
and made him a young lion.
6He prowled among the lions;
he became a young lion,
and he learned to catch prey;
he devoured men,
7and seized
Hebrew knew
their widows.
He laid waste their cities,
and the land was appalled and all who were in it
at the sound of his roaring.
8 iThen the nations set against him
from provinces on every side;
jthey spread their net over him;
khe was taken in their pit.
9With hooks lthey put him in a cage
Or  in a wooden collar

and nbrought him to the king of Babylon;
they brought him into custody,
that his voice should no more be heard
on othe mountains of Israel.
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