Ezekiel 19 - New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Song of Mourning for the Leaders of Israel

19 “As for you, take up a (A)song of mourning for the (B)leaders of Israel 2 and say,

‘[a]What was your mother?
A lioness among lions!
She lay down among young lions,
She raised her cubs.
3 When she brought up one of her cubs,
(C)He became a young lion,
And he learned to tear his prey;
He devoured people.
4 Then nations heard about him;
He was caught in their trap,
And they (D)brought him with hooks
To the land of Egypt.
5 When she saw, as she waited,
That her hope was lost,
She took [b]another of her cubs
And made (E)him a young lion.
6 And he (F)walked about among the lions,
He became a young lion;
He learned to tear his prey;
He devoured people.
7 He [c]destroyed their [d]palaces
And laid waste their cities;
And the land and its fullness were appalled
Because of the sound of his roaring.
8 Then (G)nations set against him
On every side from their provinces,
And they spread their net over him;
He was caught in their trap.
9 (H)They put him in a [e]wooden collar with hooks
And (I)brought him to the king of Babylon;
They brought him in hunting nets
So that his voice would no longer be heard
On the mountains of Israel.
10 Your mother was (J)like a vine in your [f]vineyard,
Planted by the waters;
It was fruitful and thick with branches
Because of abundant waters.
11 And it had [g](K)strong stems fit for scepters of rulers,
And its (L)height was raised above the clouds
So that it was seen in its height with the mass of its branches.
12 But it was (M)uprooted in fury;
It was (N)thrown down to the ground;
And the (O)east wind dried up its fruit.
[h]Its (P)strong stem [i]was torn out
So that [j]it withered;
The fire consumed it.
13 And now it is planted in the (Q)wilderness,
In a dry and thirsty land.
14 And (R)fire has gone out from its stem;
It has consumed its shoots and fruit,
So that there is no [k]strong stem in it,
A scepter to rule.’”

This is a song of mourning, and has become a song of mourning.

Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 19:2 Or Why did your mother, a lioness, lie down among lions; among young lions rear her cubs?
  2. Ezekiel 19:5 Lit one
  3. Ezekiel 19:7 As in Targum; MT knew
  4. Ezekiel 19:7 Or widows
  5. Ezekiel 19:9 Or iron
  6. Ezekiel 19:10 As in some mss; MT blood
  7. Ezekiel 19:11 Lit stems of strength
  8. Ezekiel 19:12 Lit The stem of her strength
  9. Ezekiel 19:12 As in LXX; MT were
  10. Ezekiel 19:12 As in LXX; MT they
  11. Ezekiel 19:14 Lit stem of strength

Cross references

  1. Ezekiel 19:1 : Ezek 2:10; 19:14
  2. Ezekiel 19:1 : 2 Kin 23:29, 30, 34; 24:6, 12; 25:5-7
  3. Ezekiel 19:3 : 2 Kin 23:30-32
  4. Ezekiel 19:4 : 2 Kin 23:34; 2 Chr 36:4, 6
  5. Ezekiel 19:5 : 2 Kings 24:8, 12
  6. Ezekiel 19:6 : 2 Kin 24:9; 2 Chr 36:9
  7. Ezekiel 19:8 : 2 Kin 24:8-15
  8. Ezekiel 19:9 : 2 Chr 36:6
  9. Ezekiel 19:9 : 2 Kin 24:15
  10. Ezekiel 19:10 : Ps 80:8-11
  11. Ezekiel 19:11 : Ps 80:15
  12. Ezekiel 19:11 : Ezek 31:3
  13. Ezekiel 19:12 : Jer 31:28
  14. Ezekiel 19:12 : Lam 2:1; Ezek 28:17
  15. Ezekiel 19:12 : Ezek 17:10; Hos 13:15
  16. Ezekiel 19:12 : Is 27:11; Ezek 19:11
  17. Ezekiel 19:13 : 2 Kin 24:12-16; Ezek 19:10; 20:35; Hos 2:3
  18. Ezekiel 19:14 : Ezek 15:4; 20:47, 48

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