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New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Ezekiel 18
³¹ Cast away from you all your transgressions which you have committed and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! For why will you die, O house of Israel?
³² For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone who dies," declares the Lord God. "Therefore, repent and live."
Ezekiel 19
¹ "As for you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel
² and say, ’What was your mother? A lioness among lions! She lay down among young lions, She reared her cubs.
³ ’When she brought up one of her cubs, He became a lion, And he learned to tear his prey; He devoured men.
⁴ ’Then nations heard about him; He was captured in their pit, And they brought him with hooks To the land of Egypt.
⁵ ’When she saw, as she waited, That her hope was lost, She took another of her cubs And made him a young lion.
⁶ ’And he walked about among the lions; He became a young lion, He learned to tear his prey; He devoured men.
⁷ ’He destroyed their fortified towers And laid waste their cities; And the land and its fullness were appalled Because of the sound of his roaring.
⁸ ’Then nations set against him On every side from their provinces, And they spread their net over him; He was captured in their pit.
⁹ ’They put him in a cage with hooks And brought him to the king of Babylon; They brought him in hunting nets So that his voice would be heard no more On the mountains of Israel.