Ezekiel 19:1

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Ezekiel 19:1

Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

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Jeremiah 13:17

The princes

General references

Ezekiel 27:2

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And fire is gone out of the rod from her branches, which has devoured her fruit, so that no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule has remained in her. This is a lamentation and shall be for a lamentation.

and he spread it before me; and it was written within and without; and there was written therein lamentations and mourning and woes.

And they shall take up a lamentation for thee and say to thee, How didst thou perish, that wast inhabited in the seas? The renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on all those that dwell therein.

Now, thou son of man, raise up lamentations upon Tyre.

This is the lamentation, and they shall sing it; the daughters of the Gentiles shall sing it: they shall lament over Egypt and over all her multitude, said the Lord GOD.

Oh that my head were waters and my eyes a fountain of tears that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

But if ye will not hear this, my soul shall weep in secret because of your pride; and weeping bitterly, my eyes shall be undone in tears because the LORD's flock was carried away captive.

The princes

In his days Pharaohnechoh, king of Egypt, went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates; and King Josiah went against him; but as soon as he saw him, he slew him at Megiddo.

So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin, his son, reigned in his stead.

And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, after all his army had been scattered from him.

And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah; and all the singing men and the singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day and made them an ordinance in Israel, which are written in the lamentations.

And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem and condemned the land in one hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

Do not weep for the dead nor bemoan him, but weep sore for him that goes away, for he shall return no more nor see his native country.

The LORD showed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the LORD, after Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah and the princes of Judah with the carpenters and smiths from Jerusalem, and had taken them to Babylon.

And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes; he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.

Resh The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we had said, Under his shadow we shall live among the Gentiles.

Princes were hanged up by their hand; the countenance of the elders was not honoured.

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Now, thou son of man, raise up lamentations upon Tyre.