among the lions.

She lay down in the midst of young lions,

and she reared her lion cubs.

³ And she raised up one from her cubs;

he became a fierce lion,

and he learned to tear prey;

he ate^[b] humans.^[c]

⁴ And nations heard about him;

in their pit he was caught,

and they brought him with hooks

to the land of Egypt.

⁵ And she saw^[d] that she was waiting in vain;

her hope was destroyed,

and she took one from her cubs,

and she made him a fierce lion.

⁶ And he walked about in the midst of lions;

he became a fierce lion,

and he learned to tear prey;

he ate^[e] humans.^[f]

⁷ And he knew their widows,^[g]

and he devastated their cities,

and the land was appalled, and everyone in it^[h]

at the sound of his roar.

⁸ And nations set out against him

from the surrounding provinces,^[i]

and they spread their net over him,

and he was caught in their pit.

⁹ And they put him in a collar with hooks,

and they brought him to the king of Babylon;

they brought him into^[j] a prison,

so that his voice would not be heard any longer^[k]

on the mountains of Israel.

¹⁰ Your mother was like the vine in your vineyard;^[l]

planted fruitfully^[m] beside water,

and it was full of branches

from many waters.^[n]

¹¹ And she produced branches of strength^[o]

to^[p] scepters of rulers;

its height became tall

between^[q] thick foliage,

and it was seen^[r] because of its tallness

among the abundance of its branches.

¹² But it was uprooted in rage;

it was thrown to the earth,

and the east wind dried up its fruit;

they were stripped off,

and its strong branch dried up;

fire consumed it.

¹³ And now it is planted in the desert,

in a dry and thirsty land.^[s]

¹⁴ And so fire has gone out from the stem of its branches;

its fruit it has consumed,

and there was not in it a strong branch,^[t]

a scepter for ruling.’”

This is a lament, and it will be used as a lament.^[u]

Footnotes

1. Ezekiel 19:1 Or “over”
2. Ezekiel 19:3 Or “devoured”
3. Ezekiel 19:3 Hebrew “human”
4. Ezekiel 19:5 Or “realized”
5. Ezekiel 19:6 Or “devoured”
6. Ezekiel 19:6 Hebrew “human”
7. Ezekiel 19:7 Or “ravished/raped”; or “he ravaged their strongholds”
8. Ezekiel 19:7 Literally “its fullness”
9. Ezekiel 19:8 Literally “all around from the provinces”
10. Ezekiel 19:9 Hebrew “in”
11. Ezekiel 19:9 Literally “longer”
12. Ezekiel 19:10 Or “in the vineyard”
13. Ezekiel 19:10 Literally “fruitful”
14. Ezekiel 19:10 Or “from waters abundant/many”
15. Ezekiel 19:11 Literally “they became to her branches/rods of strength”
16. Ezekiel 19:11 Or “for”
17. Ezekiel 19:11 Or “among”
18. Ezekiel 19:11 Or “visible”
19. Ezekiel 19:13 Literally “a land of dryness and thirst”
20. Ezekiel 19:14 Literally “a branch of strength”
21. Ezekiel 19:14 Literally “she is for a lament”