{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/dbt/ezekiel/19","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T00:35:18.823Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"Ezekiel","bookSlug":"ezekiel","chapter":19,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":18,"nextChapter":20,"totalChapters":48,"totalVerses":14},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"And thou, take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"and say, What was thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps in the midst of the young lions."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"And she brought up one of her whelps; it became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"And the nations heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with nose-rings into the land of Egypt."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"And when she saw that she had waited and her hope was lost, she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"And he went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey; he devoured men."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities, so that the land was desolate, and all it contained, by the noise of his roaring."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"And they put him in a cage with nose-rings, and brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into strongholds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Thy mother was as a vine, in thy rest, planted by the waters: it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"And it had strong rods for sceptres of them that bear rule, and its stature was exalted between the thick boughs; and it was conspicuous by its height with the multitude of its branches."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"But it was plucked up in fury, it was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit; its strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"And now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground:"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"and a fire is gone out of a rod of its branches, which hath devoured its fruit; so that it hath no strong rod to be a sceptre for ruling. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation."}],"citation":{"inline":"Ezekiel 19 (DBT)","markdown":"[Ezekiel 19](https://primebible.com/dbt/ezekiel/19)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/ezekiel/19 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}