Ezekiel 19

1 and you(m. s.) to lift: loud dirge to(wards) leader Israel

And thou, —do thou lift 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 a noble lioness was thy mother! among lions did she lie down, in the midst of young lions did she raise her whelps!

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: he became a young lion, and he learned to tear in pieces the prey; [even] men he devoured.

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 when nations heard of him, he was caught in their pit, and they brought him with nose-rings unto 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

Now when she saw that she had long waited, [that] her hope was lost, she took another one 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 in the midst of lions, he became a young lion; and he learned to tear in pieces the prey; even men he devoured.

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 broke down their palaces, and their cities laid he in ruins: and then was terrified the land, with all that filled it, because of 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 set themselves the nations against him on every side from the provinces; and they spread over him their net: in their pit was he caught.

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 [in his nose], and they brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into strong-holds, in order that his voice should no more be heard on 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 like a vine, if I compare thee to aught, planted by the waters: fruitful and full of boughs was she 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 she had strong branches [fit] for the sceptres of rulers, and her stature grew up high between the thick-branched [trees], and she was seen through her height by means of the multitude of her tendrils.

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 she was plucked up in fury, to the ground was she cast down, and the east wind dried up her fruit: and torn off and dried up were her strong branches, a fire consumed them.

13 and now to transplant in/on/with wilderness in/on/with land: country/planet dryness and thirst

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

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 fire is gone out of a branch of her boughs, and hath devoured her fruit, so that there is no more on her a strong branch for a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and it is become a lamentation.