← Ezekiel
- A. 1 Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
- a. 2-3 And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions. And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
- b. 4 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.
- a'. 5-7 Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion. And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men. And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.
- b'. 8-9 Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit. And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.
- a. 10 Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
- b. 11 And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule,
- c. 11 and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.
- c'. 12 But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit:
- b'. 12 her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.
- a'. 13 And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.
- b. 14 And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule.
- A'. 14 This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.