Lament for the Princes of Israel

      1“As for you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel

2and say,
         ‘What was your mother?
         A lioness among lions!
         She lay down among young lions,
         She reared her cubs.

3‘When she brought up one of her cubs,
         He became a lion,
         And he learned to tear his prey;
         He devoured men.

4‘Then nations heard about him;
         He was captured in their pit,
         And they brought him with hooks
         To the land of Egypt.

5‘When she saw, as she waited,
         That her hope was lost,
         She took another of her cubs
         And made him a young lion.

6‘And he walked about among the lions;
         He became a young lion,
         He learned to tear his prey;
         He devoured men.

7‘He destroyed their fortified towers
         And laid waste their cities;
         And the land and its fullness were appalled
         Because of the sound of his roaring.

8‘Then nations set against him
         On every side from their provinces,
         And they spread their net over him;
         He was captured in their pit.

9‘They put him in a cage with hooks
         And brought him to the king of Babylon;
         They brought him in hunting nets
         So that his voice would be heard no more
         On the mountains of Israel.

10‘Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard,
         Planted by the waters;
         It was fruitful and full of branches
         Because of abundant waters.

11‘And it had strong branches fit for scepters of rulers,
         And its height was raised above the clouds
         So that it was seen in its height with the mass of its branches.

12‘But it was plucked up in fury;
         It was cast down to the ground;
         And the east wind dried up its fruit.
         Its strong branch was torn off
         So that it withered;
         The fire consumed it.

13‘And now it is planted in the wilderness,
         In a dry and thirsty land.

14‘And fire has gone out from its branch;
         It has consumed its shoots and fruit,
         So that there is not in it a strong branch,
         A scepter to rule.’”
         This is a lamentation, and has become a lamentation.

NASB ©1995

American Standard Version
Moreover, take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

Darby Bible Translation
And thou, take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

English Revised Version
Moreover, take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

Webster's Bible Translation
Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

World English Bible
Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

Young's Literal Translation
And thou, lift up a lamentation unto princes of Israel,"All Our Righteousnesses are as Filthy Rags, and we all do Fade as a Leaf, and Our Iniquities, Like the Wind, have Taken us Away. "
Isaiah lxiv. 6, 7.--"All our righteousnesses are as filthy rags, and we all do fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away." Not only are the direct breaches of the command uncleanness, and men originally and actually unclean, but even our holy actions, our commanded duties. Take a man's civility, religion, and all his universal inherent righteousness,--all are filthy rags. And here the church confesseth nothing but what God accuseth her of, Isa. lxvi. 8, and chap. i. ver. …
Hugh Binning—The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning

Ezekiel
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John Edgar McFadyen—Introduction to the Old Testament

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