A Lament for the Princes of Israel
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And you, x take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
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and say:
What was your mother? y A lioness!
Among lions she crouched;
in the midst of young lions
she reared her cubs.
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And she brought up one of her cubs;
z he became a young lion,
a and he learned to catch prey;
he devoured men.
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The nations heard about him;
b he was caught in their pit,
c and they brought him with hooks
to the land of Egypt.
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When she saw that she waited in vain,
that her hope was lost,
d she took another of her cubs
and made him a young lion.
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He prowled among the lions;
he became a young lion,
and he learned to catch prey;
he devoured men,
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and seized their widows.
He laid waste their cities,
and the land was appalled and all who were in it
at the sound of his roaring.
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e Then the nations set against him
from provinces on every side;
f they spread their net over him;
b he was taken in their pit.
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With hooks e they put him in a cage
and g brought him to the king of Babylon;
they brought him into custody,
that his voice should no more be heard
on h the mountains of Israel.
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Your mother was i like a vine in a vineyard
planted by the water,
j fruitful and full of branches
k by reason of abundant water.
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Its strong stems became
rulers' scepters;
it towered aloft
among the thick boughs;
it was seen in its height
with the mass of its branches.
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But the vine was plucked up in fury,
cast down to the ground;
l the east wind dried up its fruit;
they were stripped off and withered.
As for its strong stem,
fire consumed it.
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m Now it is planted in the wilderness,
in a dry and thirsty land.
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n And fire has gone out from the stem of its shoots,
has consumed its fruit,
o so that there remains in it no strong stem,
no scepter for ruling.
This is p a lamentation and has become a lamentation.
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Cross References
Ezekiel 26:17
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Ezekiel 27:2
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Ezekiel 27:32
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Ezekiel 28:12
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Ezekiel 32:2
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Amos 5:1
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Jeremiah 7:29
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Cross References
Genesis 49:9
Judah is a lion's cub; from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down; he crouched as a lion and as a lioness; who dares rouse him?
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Ezekiel 22:25
The conspiracy of her prophets in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they have devoured human lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst.
Ezekiel 32:2
Son of man, raise a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: "You consider yourself a lion of the nations, but you are like a dragon in the seas; you burst forth in your rivers, trouble the waters with your feet, and foul their rivers.
2 Kings 23:30 - 31
And his servants carried him dead in a chariot from Megiddo and brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's place.
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Ezekiel 22:25
The conspiracy of her prophets in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they have devoured human lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst.
Ezekiel 22:27
Her princes in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain.
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Cross References
Lamentations 4:20
The breath of our nostrils, the Lord 's anointed, was captured in their pits, of whom we said, "Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.
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Cross References
2 Kings 23:33 - 34
And Pharaoh Neco put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem, and laid on the land a tribute of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
Jeremiah 22:11 - 12
For thus says the Lord concerning Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, and who went away from this place: "He shall return here no more.
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2 Kings 23:34
And Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the place of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. But he took Jehoahaz away, and he came to Egypt and died there.
2 Kings 23:36
Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
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2 Chronicles 36:6
Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and bound him in chains to take him to Babylon.
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Ezekiel 12:13
And I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my snare. And I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, yet he shall not see it, and he shall die there.
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Ezekiel 19:4
The nations heard about him; he was caught in their pit, and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
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Ezekiel 19:8
Then the nations set against him from provinces on every side; they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.
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Jeremiah 22:26 - 27
I will hurl you and the mother who bore you into another country, where you were not born, and there you shall die.
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Ezekiel 6:2
Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them.
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Ezekiel 15:6
Therefore thus says the Lord God : Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so have I given up the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
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Psalms 80:9
You cleared the ground for it; it took deep root and filled the land.
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Deuteronomy 8:7
For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys and hills.
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Ezekiel 17:10
Behold, it is planted; will it thrive? Will it not utterly wither when the east wind strikes it - wither away on the bed where it sprouted?
Hosea 13:15
Though he may flourish among his brothers, the east wind, the wind of the Lord, shall come, rising from the wilderness, and his fountain shall dry up; his spring shall be parched; it shall strip his treasury of every precious thing.
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Cross References
Ezekiel 1:1
In the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was among the exiles by the Chebar canal, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
Hosea 2:3
Lest I strip her naked and make her as in the day she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and make her like a parched land, and kill her with thirst.
2 Kings 24:12 - 16
And Jehoiachin the king of Judah gave himself up to the king of Babylon, himself and his mother and his servants and his officials and his palace officials. The king of Babylon took him prisoner in the eighth year of his reign
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2 Kings 24:20
For because of the anger of the Lord it came to the point in Jerusalem and Judah that he cast them out from his presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
Ezekiel 17:15 - 19
But he rebelled against him by sending his ambassadors to Egypt, that they might give him horses and a large army. Will he thrive? Can one escape who does such things? Can he break the covenant and yet escape?
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Ezekiel 19:11 - 12
Its strong stems became rulers' scepters; it towered aloft among the thick boughs; it was seen in its height with the mass of its branches.
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Ezekiel 19:1
And you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel.
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