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:—How lay thy mother at ease, a lioness among lions! Among young lions she nourished her whelps;

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

3And she brought up one of her whelps; He became a young lion, And he learned to seize the prey; he devoured men.

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

4And when the nations heard of him, he was taken in their pit, And they brought him with nose-rings 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

5And when she saw that she waited in vain, and that her hope was lost, She took another of her whelps, and she made him a young 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; he became a young lion, And he learned to seize the prey; he devoured men.

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

7He knew their widows, and laid waste their cities, And the land was desolate, and all that was therein, before the voice of his roaring.

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

8Then the nations set themselves against him on every side from the provinces, And spread their net over him; He was taken in their pit.

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

9And they put him with nose rings into a cage, And carried him to the king of Babylon. And they carried him to a stronghold, That his voice might be heard no more 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 was like a vine planted like thyself by the waters; She was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters;

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

11She had strong rods for sceptres of rulers, And her stature was high among the thick branches, So that she was conspicuous in her height, And 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 fury, She was cast down to the ground, And the east wind dried up her fruit. Her strong rods were broken and withered; The fire consumed them.

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

13And now she is planted in the desert, In a dry and thirsty land.

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

14And a fire is gone forth out of a rod of her branches, Which hath devoured her fruit, So that she hath no strong rod for a ruler’s sceptre. 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