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Ezekiel 19

¹"As for you, take up a dirge (funeral poem to be sung) for the princes of Israel

²and say, 'What was your mother [Jerusalem and Judah]? A lioness among lions! She lay down among young lions, She reared her cubs.

³'When she [the royal mother-city] brought up [Jehoahaz] one of her cubs, He became a [young] lion, And he learned to catch and tear the prey; He devoured men.

⁴'The nations heard about him; He was captured in their pit, And they brought him with hooks To the land of Egypt.

⁵'When she saw, as she waited, That her hope was lost, She took[1] another of her cubs And made him a young lion.

⁶'And he moved among the lions; He became a young lion, He learned to tear the prey; He devoured men.

⁷'He destroyed their palaces And he flattened their cities; And the land and all who were in it were appalled By the sound of his roaring.

⁸'Then the nations set against him (the king) On every side from the provinces, And they spread their net over him; He was captured in their pit.

⁹'They put him in a cage with hooks and chains 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.

¹⁰'Your mother [Jerusalem] was like a vine in your[2] vineyard, Planted by the waters; It was fruitful and full of branches Because of abundant water.

¹¹'And it had strong branches for the scepters of rulers, And its height was raised above the thick branches and into the clouds So that it was seen [easily] in its height with the mass of its branches.

¹²'But the vine was uprooted in [godly] wrath [by His representative] And it was thrown down to the ground; The east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branch was broken off So that it withered; The fire [of God's judgment] consumed it.

¹³'And now it is transplanted in the wilderness, In a dry and thirsty land [of Babylon].

¹⁴'And the fire [of Zedekiah's rebellion] has gone out from its branch; It has consumed the vine's shoots and fruit, So that it has in it no [longer a] strong branch As a scepter to rule.'" This is a dirge (funeral poem to be sung), and has become a dirge.