Ezekiel 19

1 And you take up a lamentation because of [the] princes of Israel.

“And you, lift up a lamentation to princes of Israel,

2 And you will say what? [was] mother your a lioness between lions she lay down in among young lions she reared cubs her.

and you have said: What [is] your mother? A lioness, She has crouched down among lions, She has multiplied her whelps in the midst of young lions.

3 And she brought up one of cubs her a young lion it was and it learned to tear prey human[s] it devoured.

And she brings up one of her whelps, He has been a young lion, And he learns to tear prey, He has devoured man.

4 And they heard concerning it nations in pit their it was caught and they brought it with hooks to [the] land of Egypt.

And nations hear of him, He has been caught in their pit, And they bring him to the land of Egypt in chains.

5 And she saw that she waited it was lost hope her and she took one of cubs her a young lion she made it.

And as she waited she sees that her hope has perished, And she takes one of her whelps, She has made him a young lion.

6 And it went about in among lions a young lion it was and it learned to tear prey human[s] it devoured.

And he goes up and down in the midst of lions, He has been a young lion, And he learns to tear prey, He has devoured man.

7 And it knew widows its and cities their it laid waste and it was desolate [the] land and what fills it from [the] sound of roaring its.

And he knows his forsaken habitations, And he has laid waste [to] their cities, And the land and its fullness is desolate, Because of the voice of his roaring.

8 And they set on it nations all around from provinces and they spread out over it net their in pit their it was caught.

And surrounding nations set against him from the provinces. And they spread out their net for him, He has been caught in their pit.

9 And they put it in cage with hooks and they brought it to [the] king of Babylon they brought it in strongholds so that not it will be heard voice its again to [the] mountains of Israel.

And they put him in prison—in chains, And they bring him to the king of Babylon, They bring him into bulwarks, So that his voice is not heard On mountains of Israel anymore.

10 Mother your like vine in blood your at water planted fruitful and full of branches it was from waters many.

Your mother, like the vine in your blood, Is being planted by waters, She was bearing fruit and full of boughs, Because of many waters.

11 And they belonged to it branches of strength to scepters of rulers and it was lofty stature its above between branches and it was seen by height its by [the] abundance of branches its.

And she has strong rods for scepters of rulers, And she is high in stature above—between thick branches, And it appears in its height In the multitude of its thin shoots.

12 And it was plucked up in rage to the ground it was thrown down and [the] wind of the east it dried up fruit its they were torn off and they became dry [the] branch of strength its a fire it consumed it.

And she is plucked up in fury, She has been cast to the earth, And the east wind has dried up her fruit, [The] rod of her strength has been broken and withered, Fire has consumed it.

13 And now [it is] planted in the wilderness in a land dry and thirst.

And now she is planted in a wilderness, In a dry and thirsty land.

14 And it went out fire from [the] branch of shoots its fruit its it consumed and not it was in it a branch of strength a scepter to rule [is] a lamentation it and it has become a lamentation.

And fire goes forth from a rod of her boughs, It has devoured her fruit, And she has no rod of strength—a scepter to rule, A lamentation—and she has become for a lamentation!”