“Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, Ezk 26:17Ezk 27:22Ki 23:29-302Ki 23:342Ki 24:122Ki 24:62Ki 25:5-7Ezk 19:14 and say, Isa 11:6-9Isa 5:29Job 4:11Nam 2:11-12Psa 58:6Zec 11:3Zep 3:1-4
‘What was your mother?
A lioness.
She couched among lions,
in the middle of the young lions she nourished her cubs.
She brought up one of her cubs. 2Ch 36:1-22Ki 23:31-32Ezk 19:6Ezk 22:25
He became a young lion.
He learned to catch the prey.
He devoured men.
The nations also heard of him. 2Ch 36:42Ki 23:33-342Ch 36:6Jer 22:11-122Ki 23:31Jer 22:18
He was taken in their pit;
and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
“‘Now when she saw that she had waited, 2Ki 23:34-37Ezk 19:3
and her hope was lost,
then she took another of her cubs,
and made him a young lion.
He went up and down among the lions. 2Ch 36:52Ch 36:92Ki 24:1-72Ki 24:9Jer 22:13-17Jer 26:1-24Jer 36:1-32
He became a young lion.
He learned to catch the prey.
He devoured men.
He knew their palaces, Ezk 30:12Amo 6:8Ezk 12:19Ezk 22:25Mic 1:2Pro 19:12Pro 28:15-16Pro 28:3
and laid waste their cities.
The land was desolate with its fullness,
because of the noise of his roaring.
Then the nations attacked him on every side from the provinces. Ezk 12:13Ezk 19:4Lam 4:202Ki 24:1-62Ki 24:11Ezk 17:20
They spread their net over him.
He was taken in their pit.
They put him in a cage with hooks, 2Ch 36:6Ezk 6:22Ki 24:15Ezk 19:7Ezk 36:1Jer 22:18-19Jer 36:30-31
and brought him to the king of Babylon.
They brought him into strongholds,
so that his voice should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel.
“‘Your mother was like a vine in your blood, planted by the waters. Psa 80:8-11Deu 8:7Mat 21:33-41Num 24:6-7Deu 8:9Ezk 15:2-8Ezk 17:6Ezk 19:2
It was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
It had strong branches for the scepters of those who ruled. Ezk 31:3Dan 4:11Psa 80:15Dan 4:20-21Ezk 19:12Ezk 19:14Ezk 21:10Ezk 21:13
Their stature was exalted among the thick boughs.
They were seen in their height
with the multitude of their branches.
But it was plucked up in fury. Ezk 17:10Hos 13:15Isa 27:11Ezk 15:4Ezk 19:11Jer 31:282Ki 23:292Ki 23:34
It was cast down to the ground,
and the east wind dried up its fruit.
Its strong branches were broken off and withered.
The fire consumed them.
Now it is planted in the wilderness, Hos 2:3Ezk 19:102Ki 24:12-16Ezk 20:35Jer 52:27-31Psa 63:1Psa 68:6Deu 28:47-48
in a dry and thirsty land.
Fire has gone out of its branches. 2Ki 24:20Ezk 19:1Ezk 19:11Isa 9:18-19Psa 80:15-162Ch 36:13Amo 9:11Ezk 15:4
It has devoured its fruit,
so that there is in it no strong branch to be a scepter to rule.’
This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.”