< Ezekiel 19 >
1 and you(m. s.) to lift: loud dirge to(wards) leader Israel
And thou, take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
2 and to say what? mother your lioness between: among lion to stretch in/on/with midst lion to multiply whelp her
and say, What was thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps in the midst of the young lions.
3 and to ascend: establish one from whelp her lion to be and to learn: learn to/for to tear prey man to eat
And she brought up one of her whelps; it became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.
4 and to hear: hear to(wards) him nation in/on/with pit: grave their to capture and to come (in): bring him in/on/with hook to(wards) land: country/planet Egypt
And the nations heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with nose-rings into the land of Egypt.
5 and to see: see for to wait: hope to perish hope her and to take: take one from whelp her lion to set: make him
And when she saw that she had waited [and] her hope was lost, she took another of her whelps, [and] made him a young lion.
6 and to go: walk in/on/with midst lion lion to be and to learn: learn to/for to tear prey man to eat
And he went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.
7 and to know widow his and city their to destroy and be desolate land: country/planet and fullness her from voice: sound roaring his
And he knew their [desolate] palaces, and he laid waste their cities, so that the land was desolate, and all it contained, by the noise of his roaring.
8 and to give: put upon him nation around: side from province and to spread upon him net their in/on/with pit: grave their to capture
Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.
9 and to give: put him in/on/with cage in/on/with hook and to come (in): bring him to(wards) king Babylon to come (in): bring him in/on/with stronghold because not to hear: hear voice his still to(wards) mountain: mount Israel
And they put him in a cage with nose-rings, and brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into strongholds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.
10 mother your like/as vine in/on/with blood your upon water to transplant be fruitful and thickly branched to be from water many
Thy mother was as a vine, in thy rest, planted by the waters: it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
11 and to be to/for her tribe: stick strength to(wards) tribe: staff to rule and to exult height his upon between cord and to see: see in/on/with height his in/on/with abundance branch his
And it had strong rods for sceptres of them that bear rule, and its stature was exalted between the thick boughs; and it was conspicuous by its height with the multitude of its branches.
12 and to uproot in/on/with rage to/for land: soil to throw and spirit: breath [the] east to wither fruit her to tear and to wither tribe: stick strength her fire to eat him
But it was plucked up in fury, it was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit; its strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.
13 and now to transplant in/on/with wilderness in/on/with land: country/planet dryness and thirst
And now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground:
14 and to come out: issue fire from tribe: stick alone: pole her fruit her to eat and not to be in/on/with her tribe: stick strength tribe: staff to/for to rule dirge he/she/it and to be to/for dirge
and a fire is gone out of a rod of its branches, [which] hath devoured its fruit; so that it hath no strong rod to be a sceptre for ruling. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.