Ezekiel 19

NEW JERUSALEM	KING JAMES BIBLE
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, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among 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 up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
4 The nations came to hear of him; he was caught in their pit; they dragged him away with hooks toEgypt.	4 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto 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 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.
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, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured 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 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.
8 The nations marched out against him from the surrounding provinces; they spread their net over him;he was caught in their pit.	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.
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 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.
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 waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason 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 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.
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 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 Now she has been transplanted to the desert, to a dry and thirsty land.	13 And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.
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 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.
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