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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Ezekiel 19 Catholic Public Domain Version</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/ezekiel/19.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/ezekiel/19-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CPDV</a> > Ezekiel 19</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../ezekiel/18.htm" title="Ezekiel 18">◄</a> Ezekiel 19 <a href="../ezekiel/20.htm" title="Ezekiel 20">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Catholic Public Domain Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/ezekiel/19-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">A Lament for the Princes of Israel<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/19-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“And as for you, take up a lament over the leaders of Israel,<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/19-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>and you shall say: Why did your mother, the lioness, recline among the male lions, and raise her little ones in the midst of young lions?<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/19-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And she led away one of her little ones, and he became a lion. And he learned to seize prey and to consume men.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/19-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And the Gentiles heard about him, and they seized him, but not without receiving wounds. And they led him away in chains to the land of Egypt.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/19-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then, when she had seen that she was weakened, and that her hope had perished, she took one of her little ones, and appointed him as a lion.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/19-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And he advanced among the lions, and he became a lion. And he learned to seize prey and to devour men.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/19-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>He learned to make widows, and to lead their citizens into the desert. And the land, with its plenitude, was made desolate by the voice of his roaring.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/19-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And the Gentiles came together against him, on every side, from the provinces, and they spread their net over him; by their wounds, he was captured.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/19-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And they put him into a cage; they led him in chains to the king of Babylon. And they cast him into a prison, so that his voice would no longer be heard upon the mountains of Israel.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/19-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Your mother is like a vine, in your blood, planted by the water; her fruit and her branches have increased because of many waters.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/19-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And her strong branches were made into scepters for the rulers, and her stature was exalted among the branches. And she saw her own loftiness among the multitude of her branches.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/19-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But she was uprooted in wrath, and cast upon the ground. And the burning wind dried up her fruit. Her robust branches withered and were dried up. A fire consumed her.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/19-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And now she has been transplanted into the desert, into a land impassable and dry.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/19-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And a fire has gone forth from a rod of her branches, which has consumed her fruit. And there is no strong branch in her to become a scepter for the rulers. This is a lamentation, and it shall be a lamentation.”<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Catholic Public Domain Version<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../ezekiel/18.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Ezekiel 18"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Ezekiel 18" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../ezekiel/20.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Ezekiel 20"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Ezekiel 20" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>