Ezekiel 19

19Moreover ^atake thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, ²And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among ^blions, she nourished her whelps among ^cyoung lions. ³And she brought up one of her whelps: ^dit became ^ca young lion, and it learned ^ddto catch the prey; ^eit devoured men. ⁴The nations also heard of him; ^fhe was taken in ^gtheir pit, and ^hthey brought him ⁱwith chains ^dunto the land of Egypt. ⁵Now when she saw that she had ^jwaited, and her hope was lost, then she took ^kanother of her whelps, and made him ^ca young lion. ⁶And he went up and down among the lions, ^dhe ^lbecame a young lion, ^land learned to catch the prey, ^land devoured men. ⁷And he knew ^||mtheir desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and ⁿthe land was desolate, ⁿand the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring. ^8oThen the nations set against him on every side from ^pthe provinces, and ^qspread their net over him: ^fhe was taken in their pit. ⁹And ^rthey put him in ward ^||in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into ^sholds, that his voice should no more be heard upon ^tthe mountains of Israel.

¹⁰Thy mother is ^ulike a vine ^||vin thy blood, planted by the waters: ^wshe was ^xfruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters. ¹¹And ^yshe had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her ^zstature was exalted among ^zthe thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of ^zzher branches. ¹²But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and ^athe east wind dried up her fruit: ^yher strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them. ¹³And now she is planted ^bin the wilderness, ^cin a dry and thirsty ground. ¹⁴And ^dfire is gone out of a rod of her ^ebranches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that ^yshe hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. ^fThis is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.