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Ezekiel 19:9

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19:9They put him in a collar with hooks;8

they brought him to the king of Babylon;

they brought him to prison9

so that his voice would not be heard

any longer on the mountains of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. 8 Or “They put him in a neck stock with hooks.” The noun סּוּגַר (sugar), translated “collar,” occurs only here in the Bible. L. C. Allen and D. I. Block point out a Babylonian cognate that refers to a device for transporting prisoners of war that held them by their necks (D. I. Block, Ezekiel [], 1:, n. 35; L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [], 1:). Based on the Hebrew root, the traditional rendering had been “cage” (cf. , , , , ).
  2. 9 The term in the occurs only here and in Eccl 9:12 where it refers to a net for catching fish. The translates this as “prison,” which assumes a confusion of dalet and resh took place in the .

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

With hooks they put him in a cage

and brought him to the king of Babylon;

they brought him into custody,

that his voice should no more be heard

on the mountains of Israel.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

With hooks they pulled him into a cage

and brought him to the king of Babylon.

They put him in prison,

so his roar was heard no longer

on the mountains of Israel.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

They put a wooden yoke on him with hooks

and led him away to the king of Babylon.

They brought him into the fortresses

so his roar could no longer be heard

on the mountains of Israel.

NLTNew Living Translation

With hooks, they dragged him into a cage

and brought him before the king of Babylon.

They held him in captivity,

so his voice could never again be heard

on the mountains of Israel.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And they put him in a collar with hooks,

and they brought him to the king of Babylon;

they brought him into a prison,

so that his voice would not be heard any longer

on the mountains of Israel.

KJV 1900King James Version

And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.