Ezekiel 19

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 As for you, son of man, raise a lamentation over the prince of Israel:	1 Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
2 What a lioness was your mother, a lion of lions! Among young lions she couched to rear her whelps.	2 And say: Why did thy mother the lioness lie down among the lions, and bring up her whelps in the midst of young lions?
3 One whelp she raised up, a young lion he became; He learned to seize prey, men he devoured.	3 And she brought out one of her whelps, and he became a lion: and he learned to catch the prey, and to devour men.
4 Then nations raised cries against him, in their pit he was caught; They took him away with hooks to the land of Egypt.	4 And the nations heard of him, and took him, but not without receiving wounds: and they brought him in chains into the land of Egypt.
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.	5 But she seeing herself weakened, and that her hope was lost, took one of her young lions, and set him up for a lion.
6 He prowled among the lions, a young lion he became; He learned to seize prey, men he devoured;	6 And he went up and down among the lions, and became a lion: and he learned to catch the prey, and to devour men.
7 He ravaged their strongholds, their cities he wasted. The land and all in it were appalled at the noise of his roar.	7 He learned to make widows, and to lay waste their cities: and the land became desolate, and the fulness thereof by the noise of his roaring.
8 Nations laid out against him snares all about him; They spread their net to take him, in their pit he was caught.	8 And the nations Game together against him on every side out of the provinces, and they spread their net over him, in their wounds he was taken.
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.	9 And they put him into a cage, they brought him in chains to the king of Babylon: and they cast him into prison, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.
10 Your mother was like a vine planted by the water; Fruitful and branchy was she because of the abundant water.	10 Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood planted by the water: her fruit and her branches have grown out of many waters.
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.	11 And she hath strong rods to make sceptres for them that bear rule, and her stature was exalted among the branches: and she saw her height in the multitude of her branches.
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.	12 But she was plucked up in wrath, and cast on the ground, and the burning wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods are withered, and dried up: the fire hath devoured her.
13 So now she is planted in the desert, in a land dry and parched,	13 And now she is transplanted into the desert, in a land not passable, and dry.
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.	14 And a fire is gone out from a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit: so that she now hath no strong rod, to be a sceptre of rulers. This is a lamentation, and it shall be for a lamentation.