Ezekiel 19

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

Moreover, 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: —How lay thy mother at ease, a lioness among lions! Among young lions she nourished 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 seize 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 when the nations heard of him, he was taken in their pit, And they brought him with nose-rings to 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 waited in vain, and that her hope was lost, She took another of her whelps, and she 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 he learned to seize 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

He knew their widows, and laid waste their cities, And the land was desolate, and all that was therein, before the voice 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 themselves 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 with nose rings into a cage, And carried him to the king of Babylon. And they carried him to a stronghold, That his voice might be heard no more 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 like a vine planted like thyself by the waters; She 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

She had strong rods for sceptres of rulers, And her stature was high among the thick branches, So that she was conspicuous in her height, And the multitude of her 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 she was plucked up in fury, She was cast down to the ground, And the east wind dried up her fruit. Her 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 she is planted in the desert, 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 a fire is gone forth out of a rod of her branches, Which hath devoured her fruit, So that she hath no strong rod for a ruler's sceptre. This is a lamentation, and it shall be for a lamentation.