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| 19:1 |
As for you, raise 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 lay down among young lions, rearing her cubs.
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| 19:3 |
She raised up one of her cubs; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey; he devoured humans.
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| 19:4 |
The nations sounded an alarm against him; he was caught 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 thwarted, that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs 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 people.
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| 19:7 |
And he ravaged their strongholds, and laid waste their towns; the land was appalled, and all in it, at the sound of his roaring.
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| 19:8 |
The nations set upon him from the provinces all around; they spread their net over him; he was caught 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, so that his voice should be heard no more on 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 from abundant water.
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| 19:11 |
Its strongest stem became a ruler's scepter; it towered aloft among the thick boughs; it stood out in its height with its mass of branches.
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| 19:12 |
But it 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 into the wilderness, into 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 ruling. This is a lamentation, and it is used as a lamentation.
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