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Ezekiel 19
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.
¹⁰ ’Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, Planted by the waters; It was fruitful and full of branches Because of abundant waters.
¹¹ ’And it had strong branches fit for scepters of rulers, And its height was raised above the clouds So that it was seen in its height with the mass of its branches.
¹² ’But it was plucked up in fury; It was cast down to the ground; And the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branch was torn off So that it withered; The fire consumed it.
¹³ ’And now it is planted in the wilderness, In a dry and thirsty land.
¹⁴ ’And fire has gone out from its branch; It has consumed its shoots and fruit, So that there is not in it a strong branch, A scepter to rule.’" This is a lamentation, and has become a lamentation.
Ezekiel 20
¹ Now in the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth of the month, certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the Lord, and sat before me.
² And the word of the Lord came to me saying,