1Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

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

2And say: Why did thy mother the lioness lie down among the lions, and bring up her whelps 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 brought out one of her whelps, and he became a lion: and he learned to catch the prey, and to devour 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 nations heard of him, and took him, but not without receiving wounds: and they brought him in chains into 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

5But she seeing herself weakened, and that her hope was lost, took one of her young lions, and set him up for 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 went up and down among the lions, and became a lion: and he learned to catch the 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 lay waste their cities: and the land became desolate, and the fulness thereof by the noise of his roaring.

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

8And the nations came together against him on every side out of the provinces, and they spread their net over him, in their wounds he was taken.

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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 brought him in chains to the king of Babylon: and they cast him into prison, that his voice should no more 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

10Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood planted by the water: her fruit and her branches have grown out of many waters.

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

11And she hath strong rods to make sceptres for them that bear rule, and her stature was exalted among the branches: and she saw her height in 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 plucked up in wrath, and cast on the ground, and the burning wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods are withered, and dried up: the fire hath devoured her.

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

13And now she is transplanted into the desert, in a land not passable, and dry.

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

14And a fire is gone out from a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit: so that she now hath no strong rod, to be a sceptre of rulers. This is a lamentation, and it shall be for a lamentation.

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