Thematic Bible




Ezekiel 19:1 (show verse)

“As for you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel

Ezekiel 19:2 (show verse)

and say,
What was your mother?
A lioness among lions!
She lay down among young lions,
She reared her cubs.

Ezekiel 19:3 (show verse)

‘When she brought up one of her cubs,
He became a lion,
And he learned to tear his prey;
He devoured men.

Ezekiel 19:4 (show verse)

‘Then nations heard about him;
He was captured in their pit,
And they brought him with hooks
To the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 19:5 (show verse)

‘When she saw, as she waited,
That her hope was lost,
She took another of her cubs
And made him a young lion.

Ezekiel 19:6 (show verse)

‘And he walked about among the lions;
He became a young lion,
He learned to tear his prey;
He devoured men.

Ezekiel 19:7 (show verse)

‘He destroyed their fortified towers
And laid waste their cities;
And the land and its fullness were appalled
Because of the sound of his roaring.

Ezekiel 19:8 (show verse)

‘Then nations set against him
On every side from their provinces,
And they spread their net over him;
He was captured in their pit.

Ezekiel 19:9 (show verse)

They put him in a cage with hooks
And brought him to the king of Babylon;
They brought him in hunting nets
So that his voice would be heard no more
On the mountains of Israel.

Ezekiel 19:10 (show verse)

‘Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard,
Planted by the waters;
It was fruitful and full of branches
Because of abundant waters.

Ezekiel 19:11 (show verse)

‘And it had strong branches fit for scepters of rulers,
And its height was raised above the clouds
So that it was seen in its height with the mass of its branches.

Ezekiel 19:12 (show verse)

‘But it was plucked up in fury;
It was cast down to the ground;
And the east wind dried up its fruit.
Its strong branch was torn off
So that it withered;
The fire consumed it.

Ezekiel 19:13 (show verse)

‘And now it is planted in the wilderness,
In a dry and thirsty land.

Ezekiel 19:14 (show verse)

‘And fire has gone out from its branch;
It has consumed its shoots and fruit,
So that there is not in it a strong branch,
A scepter to rule.’”
This is a lamentation, and has become a lamentation.