(KJV) Ezekiel 19¹

⥃A Lament for the Princes of Israel

[1] Moreover take² thou up a lamentation for the princes³ of Israel, [2] And say, What [is] thy mother? A lioness⁴: she lay⁵ down among lions, she nourished her whelps⁶ among young lions⁷. [3] And she brought up one⁸ of her whelps: it became⁹ a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men. [4] The nations also heard of him; he was¹⁰ taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt. [5] Now when she saw that she had waited, [and] her hope was lost, then she took another¹¹ of her whelps, [and] made him a young lion¹². [6] And he went¹³ up and down among the lions, he became¹⁴ a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, [and] devoured men. [7] And he knew their desolate palaces¹⁵, and he laid waste their cities; and the land¹⁶ was desolate, and the fulness¹⁷ thereof, by the noise of his roaring. [8] Then the nations¹⁸ set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread¹⁹ their net over him: he was taken in their pit. [9] And they put him in ward in chains²⁰, and brought²¹ him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his²² voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.

[10] Thy mother²³ [is] like²⁴ a vine in thy blood²⁵, planted by the waters: she was²⁶ fruitful and full²⁷ of branches by reason of many waters. [11] And she had²⁸ strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her stature²⁹ was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches. [12] But she was³⁰ plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east³¹ wind dried up her fruit: her strong³² rods were broken and withered; the fire³³ consumed them. [13] And now she [is³⁴] planted in the wilderness³⁵, in a dry³⁶ and thirsty ground. [14] And fire³⁷ is gone out of a rod of her branches, [which] hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath³⁸ no strong rod [to be] a sceptre to rule. This [is³⁹] a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.