A Lament Over Israel’s Princes

19 “Take up a lament(A) concerning the princes(B) of Israel

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14 Fire spread from one of its main[a] branches
    and consumed(A) its fruit.
No strong branch is left on it
    fit for a ruler’s scepter.’(B)

“This is a lament(C) and is to be used as a lament.”

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 19:14 Or from under its

“Son of man, take up a lament(A) concerning Tyre.

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32 As they wail and mourn over you,
    they will take up a lament(A) concerning you:
“Who was ever silenced like Tyre,
    surrounded by the sea?(B)

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“Son of man, take up a lament(A) concerning Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him:

“‘You are like a lion(B) among the nations;
    you are like a monster(C) in the seas(D)
thrashing about in your streams,
    churning the water with your feet
    and muddying the streams.(E)

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16 “This is the lament(A) they will chant for her. The daughters of the nations will chant it; for Egypt and all her hordes they will chant it, declares the Sovereign Lord.”

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