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# Chapter 19
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1 “Moreover take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
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2 and say:
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‘What is your mother? A lioness:
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She lay down among the lions;
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Among the young lions she nourished her cubs.
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3 She brought up one of her cubs,
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And he became a young lion;
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He learned to catch prey,
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And he devoured men.
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4 The nations also heard of him;
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He was trapped in their pit,
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And they brought him with chains to the land of Egypt.
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5 ‘When she saw that she waited, that her hope was lost,
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She took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.
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6 He roved among the lions,
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And became a young lion;
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He learned to catch prey;
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He devoured men.
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7 He knew their desolate places,
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And laid waste their cities;
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The land with its fullness was desolated
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By the noise of his roaring.
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8 Then the nations set against him from the provinces on every side,
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And spread their net over him;
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He was trapped in their pit.
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9 They put him in a cage with chains,
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And brought him to the king of Babylon;
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They brought him in nets,
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That his voice should no longer be heard on the mountains of Israel.
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10 ‘Your mother was like a vine in your bloodline,
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Planted by the waters,
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Fruitful and full of branches
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Because of many waters.
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11 She had strong branches for scepters of rulers.
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She towered in stature above the thick branches,
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And was seen in her height amid the dense foliage.
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12 But she was plucked up in fury,
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She was cast down to the ground,
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And the east wind dried her fruit.
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Her strong branches were broken and withered;
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The fire consumed them.
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13 And now she is planted in the wilderness,
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In a dry and thirsty land.
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14 Fire has come out from a rod of her branches
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And devoured her fruit,
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So that she has no strong branch—a scepter for ruling.’ ”
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This is a lamentation, and has become a lamentation. |