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| 19:1 |
And you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
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| 19:2 |
and say: What a lioness was your mother among lions! She couched in the midst of young lions, rearing her whelps.
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| 19:3 |
And she brought up one of her whelps;he became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey;he devoured men.
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| 19:4 |
The nations sounded an alarm against him;he was taken in their pit;and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
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| 19:5 |
When she saw that she was baffled, that her hope was lost, she took another of her whelps and made him a young lion.
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| 19:6 |
He prowled among the lions;he became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey;he devoured men.
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| 19:7 |
And he ravaged their strongholds, and laid waste their cities;and the land was appalled and all who were in it at the sound of his roaring.
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| 19:8 |
Then the nations set against him snares on every side;they spread their net over him;he was taken in their pit.
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| 19:9 |
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 upon the mountains of Israel.
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| 19:10 |
Your mother was like a vine in a vineyard transplanted by the water, fruitful and full of branches by reason of abundant water.
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| 19:11 |
Its strongest stem became a ruler's scepter;it towered aloft among the thick boughs;it was seen in its height with the mass of its branches.
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| 19:12 |
But the vine was plucked up in fury, cast down to the ground;the east wind dried it up;its fruit was stripped off, its strong stem was withered;the fire consumed it.
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| 19:13 |
Now it is transplanted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.
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| 19:14 |
And fire has gone out from its stem, has consumed its branches and fruit, so that there remains in it no strong stem, no scepter for a ruler. This is a lamentation, and has become a lamentation.
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