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| [1]Moreover do thou take up a lamentation for the prince of Israel, |
[1]MOREOVER, you Son of man, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, |
| [2]and say, Why is thy mother become a whelp in the midst of lions? in the midst of lions she has multiplied her whelps. |
[2]And say, What is your mother? O whelp of lions! she crouched among lions, she reared her whelps among young lions. |
| [3]And one of her whelps sprang forth; he became a lion, and learned to take prey, he devoured men. |
[3]And one of her whelps grew up and became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey; and he devoured men. |
| [4]And the nations heard a report of him; he was caught in their pit, and they brought him into the land of Egypt in chains. |
[4]The nations also heard of his fame; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with a bridle to the land of Egypt. |
| [5]And she saw that he was driven away from her, and her hope of him perished, and she took another of her whelps; she made him a lion. |
[5]Now when his mother saw that she had suffered and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps and made him a young lion. |
| [6]And he went up and down in the midst of lions, he became a lion, and learned to take prey, he devoured men. |
[6]And he went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey and devoured men. |
| [7]And he prowled in his boldness and laid waste their cities, and made the land desolate, and the fullness of it, by the voice of his roaring. |
[7]Then he walked in his strength and ravaged cities and laid waste the land in its fulness by the noise of his roaring. |
| [8]Then the nations set upon him from the countries round about, and they spread their nets upon him: he was taken in their pit. |
[8]Then the nations gathered together against him from the provinces round about him, and spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit. |
| [9]And they put him in chains and in a cage, and he came to the king of Babylon; and he cast him into prison, that his voice should not be heard on the mountains of Israel. |
[9]And they put him in a cage and brought him to the king of Babylon; and he threw him into prison, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel |
| [10]Thy mother was as a vine and as a blossom on a pomegranate tree, planted by water: her fruit and her shoot abounded by reason of much water. |
[10]Your mother is like a vine in your blood, planted by the waters; she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters. |
| [11]And she became a rod for a tribe of princes, and was elevated in her bulk in the midst of other trees, and she saw her bulk in the multitude of her branches. |
[11]And she had strong rods for scepters of the rulers upon the great branches, and their stature rose up higher among its shoots, and their height was seen and the multitude of their tendrils. |
| [12]But she was broken down in wrath, she was cast upon the ground, and the east wind dried up her choice branches: vengeance came upon them, and the rod of her strength was withered; fire consumed it. |
[12]But it was plucked up in fury and was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit; its strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed it. |
| [13]And now they have planted her in the wilderness, in a dry land. |
[13]And now it is planted in the wilderness, in a thirsty and dry land. |
| [14]And fire is gone out of a rod of her choice boughs, and has devoured her; and there was no rod of strength in her. Her race is become a parable of lamentation, and it shall be for a lamentation. |
[14]And fire is gone out from its choice branches and has devoured its fruit, so that no strong rod was found in it, or a branch to become a ruler's scepter. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation |