Ezekiel 19

1 Thou also, take vp a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

Thou. therefore take up a dirge, for the prince of Israel;

2 And say, Wherefore lay thy mother as a lyonesse among the lyons? she nourished her yong ones among the lyons whelps,

and thou shalt say— How was thy mother a lioness, Between lions, she lay down, - In the midst of young lions, She nourished her whelps;

3 And she brought vp one of her whelps, and it became a lyon, and it learned to catch the praye, and it deuoured men.

And she reared up one of her whelps— A young lion, he became, And he learned to rend prey. Men, he devoured.

4 The nations also heard of him, and he was taken in their nets, and they brought him in chaines vnto the land of Egypt.

Then nations heard of him. In their pit, was he caught, — So they brought him with hooks. Into the land of Egypt.

5 Nowe when she sawe, that she had waited and her hope was lost, she tooke another of her whelps, and made him a lyon.

And she saw she had waited Lost was her hope, Then took she another of her whelps. A young lion, she made him.

6 Which went among the lyons, and became a lyon, and learned to catch the praye, and he deuoured men.

Yea he went to and fro amidst lions A young lion, he became, - And he learned to rend prey. Men, he devoured;

7 And he knew their widowes, and he destroyed their cities, and the land was wasted, and all that was therein by the noyse of his roaring.

And he injured his widows, And their cities, laid waste, - And deserted was the land and its fulness, At the noise of his roaring.

8 Then the nations set against him on euery side of the countreys, and laide their nets for him: so he was taken in their pit.

Then set upon him the nations round about. From the provinces, - And spread over him their net In their pit, was he caught;

9 And they put him in prison and in chaines, and brought him to the King of Babel, and they put him in holdes, that his voyce should no more be heard vpon the mountaines of Israel.

And they put him in a cage with hooks, And brought him to Babylon’s king, — They brought him into strong-holds, That his noise might be heard no more Among the mountains of Israel.

10 Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she brought foorth fruite and branches by the abundant waters,

Thy mother [was] like a vine of thy vineyard, By waters, was planted, — Fruitful and full of branches, she became By reason of waters abundant;

11 And she had strong rods for the scepters of them that beare rule, and her stature was exalted among the branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.

And they served her as staves of power For the sceptres of rulers, And high became the stature thereof With its interwoven foliage, - And it was seen by its height, By its multitude of branches.

12 But she was plucked vp in wrath: she was cast downe to the ground, and the East winde dried vp her fruite: her branches were broken, and withered: as for the rod of her strength, the fire consumed it.

Then was she uprooted in indignation To the ground, was she cast, And an east wind, dried up her fruit, —Broken off and withered were her staves of power, A fire, devoured them.

13 And now she is planted in the wildernes in a drie and thirstie ground.

Now, therefore, is she planted in a desert, -In a land parched and dry;

14 And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath deuoured her fruite, so that she hath no strong rod to be a scepter to rule: this is a lamentation and shalbe for a lamentation.

And there hath gone forth a fire out of her staves of rods. Her fruit, hath it devoured, And there is in her no staff of power. As a sceptre to bear rule. A dirge, it is, and hath been made a dirge.