Ezechiel 19

¹And thou take up lamentation upon the Princes of Israel,

²and thou shalt say: Why lay thy mother a lioness among the lions, in the midst of young lions brought up her whelps?

³And she brought out one of her young lions, he became a lion: and he learned to catch preys, and to eat man.

⁴And the Gentiles heard of him, and not without their wounds they took him: & they brought him in chains into the Land of Ægypt.

⁵Who when she saw that she was weakened, and her expectation was lost, she took one of her young lions, she made him a lion.

⁶Who went among the lions, & became a lion: and he learned to take prey, & to devour men.

⁷He learned to make widows, and to bring their cities into a desert: and the land was made desolate, and the fullness thereof by the voice of his roaring.

⁸And the Gentiles came together against him on every side out of the Provinces, and they spread their net upon him, in their wounds he was taken.

⁹And they put him into a cave, in chains they brought him to the king of Babylon: and they cast him into prison, that his voice might no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.

¹⁰Thy mother as it were a vine in thy blood is planted upon the water: her fruit and her branches have grown out of many waters.

¹¹And there were made to her strong rods for the sceptres of them that rule, and her stature was exalted among the branches: and she saw her height in the multitude of her branches.

¹²And she was plucked up in wrath, and cast on the ground: and the burning wind hath dried up her fruit: the rods of her strength are withered, & dried up: fire hath eaten her.

¹³And now she is transplanted into the desert, in a land not passable, and dry.

¹⁴And there came forth fire from the rod of her boughs, which hath eaten her fruit: and there was not in her a strong rod, the sceptre of rulers. Lamentation it is, and it shall be into lamentation.