Ezekiel 19
About Ezekiel Ezekiel, a prophet among the exiles, speaks of judgment, God's glory, and the renewal of his people.
1Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,SelectedEzekiel 19:1Ask
2And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.SelectedEzekiel 19:2Ask
3And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.SelectedEzekiel 19:3Ask
4The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.SelectedEzekiel 19:4Ask
5Now 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.SelectedEzekiel 19:5Ask
6And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.SelectedEzekiel 19:6Ask
7And 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.SelectedEzekiel 19:7Ask
8Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.SelectedEzekiel 19:8Ask
9And 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.SelectedEzekiel 19:9Ask
10Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.SelectedEzekiel 19:10Ask
11And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.SelectedEzekiel 19:11Ask
12But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.SelectedEzekiel 19:12Ask
13And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.SelectedEzekiel 19:13Ask
14And 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. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.SelectedEzekiel 19:14Ask
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