Ezekiel 19

KING JAMES BIBLE	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,	1 As for you, son of man, raise a lamentation over the prince of Israel:
2 And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.	2 What a lioness was your mother, a lion of lions! Among young lions she couched to rear her whelps.
3 And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.	3 One whelp she raised up, a young lion he became; He learned to seize prey, men he devoured.
4 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.	4 Then nations raised cries against him, in their pit he was caught; They took him away with hooks to the land of Egypt.
5 Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.	5 Then she saw that in vain she had waited, her hope was destroyed. She took another of her whelps, him she made a young lion.
6 And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.	6 He prowled among the lions, a young lion he became; He learned to seize prey, men he devoured;
7 And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.	7 He ravaged their strongholds, their cities he wasted. The land and all in it were appalled at the noise of his roar.
8 Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.	8 Nations laid out against him snares all about him; They spread their net to take him, in their pit he was caught.
9 And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.	9 They put him in a cage and took him away to the king of Babylon, So that his voice would not be heard on the mountains of Israel.
10 Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.	10 Your mother was like a vine planted by the water; Fruitful and branchy was she because of the abundant water.
11 And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.	11 One strong branch she put out as a royal scepter. Stately was her height amid the dense foliage; Notably tall was she with her many clusters.
12 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.	12 But she was torn up in fury and flung to the ground; The east wind withered her up, her fruit was torn off; Then her strong branch withered up, fire devoured it.
13 And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.	13 So now she is planted in the desert, in a land dry and parched,
14 And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.	14 For fire came out of the branch and devoured her shoots; She is now without a strong branch, a ruler's scepter. This is a lamentation and serves as a lamentation.
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