Ezekiel 19

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 'Now, raise a lament for the princes of Israel.	1 Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
2 Say: What was your mother? A lioness among lions; lying among the cubs she nursed 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 She reared one of her whelps: he grew into a young lion; he learnt to tear his prey; he became a man-eater.	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 The nations came to hear of him; he was caught in their pit; they dragged him away with hooks toEgypt.	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 Her expectation thwarted, and seeing her hope dashed, she took another of her whelps and made ayoung lion of him.	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, he grew into a young lion, he learnt to tear his prey; he became a man-eater.	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 tore down their palaces, he destroyed their cities; the land and al its inhabitants were appal ed bythe sound of his roars.	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 The nations marched out against him from the surrounding provinces; they spread their net over him;he was caught in their pit.	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 shackled him with hooks, they took him to the king of Babylon and threw him into a fortress, sothat his voice could never again 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 beside the water, fruitful and leafy, because the water flowed soful .	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 She had stout stems which became kingly sceptres; she grew higher and higher, up into the clouds;she was admired for her height and the number of her branches.	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 furiously uprooted and thrown on the ground; the east wind dried up her fruit, she wasbroken to pieces; her stout stem dried up, the 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 Now she has been transplanted to the desert, to a dry and thirsty land.	13 And now she is transplanted into the desert, in a land not passable, and dry.
14 Fire burst out of her stem devouring her branches and fruit. No more stout stem for her, no morekingly sceptre.' This is a lament; it was used as such.	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.