Ezekiel · 14 verses
Ezekiel 19
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The mother begins as a lioness among lions and ends as a vine in a vineyard, with no explanation offered for the change of species.
The lioness and her cubsvv. 1–9
The lament opens with a mother lioness, raising cubs among lions. One cub learns to tear prey and devours men, but the nations trap him and lead him away to Egypt. Another cub follows the same path: he breaks strongholds, devastates cities, and makes the land shudder with his roar. Then the nations spread a net, cage him with hooks, and bring him to the king of Babylon, where his roar is heard no longer on the mountains of Israel.
The vine and the final firevv. 10–14
Then, rather abruptly, the mother is a vine planted by water, fruitful, branching, tall enough to suit a ruler’s scepter. It is uprooted in fury, dried by the east wind, stripped of its branches, and planted in the wilderness. At last fire comes out from its main branch and consumes the fruit, leaving no strong branch fit for a ruler’s scepter. After all this splendid foliage and fire, the poem gives itself a plain label and an equally plain job.
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Ezek 19:1“As for you, take up a lament for the princes of Israel
Ezek 19:2and say: ‘What was your mother? A lioness among the lions! She lay down among the young lions; she reared her cubs.
Ezek 19:3She brought up one of her cubs, and he became a young lion. After learning to tear his prey, he devoured men.
Ezek 19:4When the nations heard of him, he was trapped in their pit. With hooks they led him away to the land of Egypt.
Ezek 19:5When she saw that she had waited in vain, that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.
Ezek 19:6He prowled among the lions, and became a young lion. After learning to tear his prey, he devoured men.
Ezek 19:7He broke down their strongholds and devastated their cities. The land and everything in it shuddered at the sound of his roaring.
Ezek 19:8Then the nations set out against him from the provinces on every side. They spread their net over him; he was trapped in their pit.
Ezek 19:9With hooks they caged him and brought him to the king of Babylon. They brought him into captivity so that his roar was heard no longer on the mountains of Israel.
Ezek 19:10Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, planted by the water; it was fruitful and full of branches because of the abundant waters.
Ezek 19:11It had strong branches, fit for a ruler’s scepter. It towered high above the thick branches, conspicuous for its height and for its dense foliage.
Ezek 19:12But it was uprooted in fury, cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branches were stripped off and they withered; the fire consumed them.
Ezek 19:13Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.
Ezek 19:14Fire has gone out from its main branch and devoured its fruit; on it no strong branch remains fit for a ruler’s scepter.’ This is a lament and shall be used as a lament.”
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Where this is echoed
Readers' own connections, from OpenBible's crowd-voted cross-references — agreement about relevance, and not scholarly confidence. 164 passages were voted onto 14 verses of this chapter; the 16 shown lead on votes, and each is listed at the verse it was voted onto most strongly.
- 10Psalms 80:8–11You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and transplanted it.
- 12Ezekiel 17:10Even if it is transplanted, will it flourish? Will it not completely wither when the east wind strikes? It will wither on the bed where it sprouted.’”
- 12Hosea 13:15Although he flourishes among his brothers, an east wind will come—a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. His fountain will fail, and his spring will run dry. The wind will plunder his treasury of every precious article.
- 13Hosea 2:3Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst.
- 1Ezekiel 27:2“Now you, son of man, take up a lament for Tyre.
- 1Ezekiel 26:17Then they will lament for you, saying, “How you have perished, O city of renown inhabited by seafaring men—she who was powerful on the sea, along with her people, who imposed terror on all peoples!
- 42 Chronicles 36:4Then Neco king of Egypt made Eliakim brother of Jehoahaz king over Judah and Jerusalem, and he changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took Eliakim’s brother Jehoahaz and carried him off to Egypt.
- 42 Kings 23:33–34And Pharaoh Neco imprisoned Jehoahaz at Riblah in the land of Hamath so that he could not reign in Jerusalem, and he imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
- 92 Chronicles 36:6Then Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jehoiakim and bound him with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon.
- 10Deuteronomy 8:7For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills;
- 11Ezekiel 31:3Look at Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches that shaded the forest. It towered on high; its top was among the clouds.
- 12Isaiah 27:11When its limbs are dry, they are broken off. Women come and use them for kindling; for this is a people without understanding. Therefore their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.
- 12 Kings 24:6And Jehoiakim rested with his fathers, and his son Jehoiachin reigned in his place.
- 12 Kings 25:5–7but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and his whole army deserted him.
- 1Ezekiel 2:10which He unrolled before me. And written on the front and back of it were words of lamentation, mourning, and woe.
- 12 Kings 23:34Then Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim son of Josiah king in place of his father Josiah, and he changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took Jehoahaz and carried him off to Egypt, where he died.
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