Ezekiel 19

1 And thou, son of man, take wailing on the princes of Israel;⋮

2 and thou shalt say, Why thy mother, a lioness, lay among lions? In the midst of little lions she nourished her whelps,⋮

3 and led out one of her little lions; he was made a lion, and he learned to take prey, and to eat men.⋮

4 And heathen men heard of him, and took him not without their wounds; and they brought him in chains into the land of Egypt.⋮

5 Which mother when she had seen, that she was sick, and the abiding of him perished, took another one of her little lions, and made him a lion.⋮

6 Which went among lions, and was made like a young lion; and he learned to take prey, and to devour men.⋮

7 He learned to make widows, and to bring the cities of men into desert; and the land and the fullness thereof was made desolate, of the voice of his roaring.⋮

8 And heathen men came together against him on each side from provinces, and spread on him their net; he was taken in the wounds of those heathen men.⋮

9 And they sent him into a cave in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon; and they sent him into prison, that his voice were no more heard on the hills of Israel.⋮

10 Thy mother as a vinery or vine-yard in thy blood was planted on water; the fruits thereof and the boughs thereof increased by reason of many waters.⋮

11 And firm rods were made to it into sceptres of lords, and the stature thereof was enhanced among boughs; and it saw his highness in the multitude of his scions.⋮

12 And it was drawn out in wrath, and was cast forth into the earth; and a burning wind dried the fruit thereof, and the rods of strength thereof withered, and were made dry, and the fire ate it.⋮

13 And now it is planted over in desert, in a land without a way, and thirsty.⋮

14 And fire went out of a rod of the branches thereof, that ate the fruit thereof. And a strong rod, the sceptre of lords, was not in it. It is wailing, and it shall be into wailing.⋮