1“And as for you, take up a lament over the leaders of Israel,

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2 Kings 24:6, Ezekiel 27:2, Ezekiel 26:17, 2 Kings 24:6, Ezekiel 27:2

2and you shall say: Why did your mother, the lioness, recline among the male lions, and raise her little ones in the midst of young lions?

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Zephaniah 3:1, Zephaniah 3:4, Nahum 2:11, Nahum 2:12, Job 4:11

3And she led away one of her little ones, and he became a lion. And he learned to seize prey and to consume men.

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Ezekiel 22:25, Ezekiel 19:6, 2 Chronicles 36:1, 2 Chronicles 36:2, 2 Kings 23:31

4And the Gentiles heard about him, and they seized him, but not without receiving wounds. And they led him away in chains to the land of Egypt.

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2 Chronicles 36:4, 2 Kings 23:33, 2 Kings 23:34, 2 Chronicles 36:4, 2 Kings 23:33

5Then, when she had seen that she was weakened, and that her hope had perished, she took one of her little ones, and appointed him as a lion.

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2 Kings 23:34, 2 Kings 23:37, Ezekiel 19:3, 2 Kings 23:34, 2 Kings 23:37

6And he advanced among the lions, and he became a lion. And he learned to seize prey and to devour men.

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2 Kings 24:1, 2 Kings 24:7, Jeremiah 26:1, Jeremiah 26:24, 2 Chronicles 36:5

7He learned to make widows, and to lead their citizens into the desert. And the land, with its plenitude, was made desolate by the voice of his roaring.

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Ezekiel 30:12, Ezekiel 30:12, Proverbs 19:12, Micah 1:2, Amos 6:8

8And the Gentiles came together against him, on every side, from the provinces, and they spread their net over him; by their wounds, he was captured.

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Ezekiel 12:13, Ezekiel 19:4, Ezekiel 12:13, Ezekiel 19:4, 2 Kings 24:1

9And they put him into a cage; they led him in chains to the king of Babylon. And they cast him into a prison, so that his voice would no longer be heard upon the mountains of Israel.

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2 Chronicles 36:6, 2 Chronicles 36:6, Ezekiel 6:2, Ezekiel 6:2, Jeremiah 36:30

10Your mother is like a vine, in your blood, planted by the water; her fruit and her branches have increased because of many waters.

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Psalms 80:8, Psalms 80:11, Psalms 80:8, Psalms 80:11, Deuteronomy 8:7

11And her strong branches were made into scepters for the rulers, and her stature was exalted among the branches. And she saw her own loftiness among the multitude of her branches.

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Ezekiel 31:3, Ezekiel 31:3, Daniel 4:11, Psalms 80:15, Daniel 4:11

12But she was uprooted in wrath, and cast upon the ground. And the burning wind dried up her fruit. Her robust branches withered and were dried up. A fire consumed her.

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Hosea 13:15, Ezekiel 17:10, Hosea 13:15, Ezekiel 17:10, Isaiah 27:11

13And now she has been transplanted into the desert, into a land impassable and dry.

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Hosea 2:3, Hosea 2:3, Ezekiel 19:10, Ezekiel 19:10, Psalms 68:6

14And a fire has gone forth from a rod of her branches, which has consumed her fruit. And there is no strong branch in her to become a scepter for the rulers. This is a lamentation, and it shall be a lamentation.”

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Ezekiel 19:1, Isaiah 9:18, Isaiah 9:19, 2 Kings 24:20, Ezekiel 19:11