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Ezekiel 19:2 (NIV)

and say:

‘“What a lioness was your mother
among the lions!
She lay down among them
and reared her cubs.
 

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Ezekiel 19:5 (KJV)

Now when she saw that she had waited,
and her hope was lost,
then she took another of her whelps,
and made him a young lion.
 

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Ezekiel 19:6 (KJV)

And he went up and down among the lions,
he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey,
and devoured men.
 

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Ezekiel 19:9 (NASB)

They put him in fetters and took him away
to the king of Babylon,
So his roar would no longer be heard
on the mountains of Israel.
 

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Ezekiel 19:10 (NASB)

Your mother was like a leafy vine
planted by water,
Fruitful and full of branches
because of abundant water.
 

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Ezekiel 19:11 ESV

Its strong stems became
rulers' scepters;
it towered aloft
among the thick boughs;
it was seen in its height
with the mass of its branches.
 

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Ezekiel 19:12 ESV

But the vine was plucked up in fury,
cast down to the ground;
the east wind dried up its fruit;
they were stripped off and withered.
As for its strong stem,
fire consumed it.
 

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Ezekiel 19:14 (NRSV)

And fire has gone out from its stem,
has consumed its branches and fruit,
so that there remains in it no strong stem,
no sceptre for ruling.
 
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Ezekiel 19:14 (NRSV)

And fire has gone out from its stem,
has consumed its branches and fruit,
so that there remains in it no strong stem,
no sceptre for ruling.
Should be....

Ezekiel 19:14 (NRSV)
And fire has gone out from its stem, has consumed its branches and fruit, so that there remains in it no strong stem, no scepter for ruling. This is a lamentation, and it is used as a lamentation.

Moving forward...

Ezekiel 20:1 (BSB)
In the seventh year, on the tenth day of the fifth month, some of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the LORD, and they sat down before me.
 

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Ezekiel 20:3 (NIV)

‘Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel and say to them, “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: have you come
to enquire of me? As surely as I live, I will not let you enquire of me, declares the Sovereign Lord.”
 

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Ezekiel 20:4 (NIV)

‘Will you judge them? Will you judge them, son of man? Then confront them with the detestable practices of their ancestors
 
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Ezekiel 20:5 (BSB)
and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: On the day I chose Israel, I swore an oath to the descendants of the house of Jacob and made Myself known to them in the land of Egypt. With an uplifted hand I said to them, ‘I am the LORD your God.’