Yehezkiel 19

Yehezkiel 19

Ezekiel 19

Ratapan tentang raja Israel 19:1 Hai, ucapkanlah suatu ratapan mengenai raja Israel, 19:2 dan katakanlah begini: "Betapa ibumu menjadi seekor singa betina di antara singa-singa! Ia berbaring di antara singa-singa muda, dan menyusui anak-anaknya. 19:3 Ia membesarkan seekor dari anak-anaknya, sehingga menjadi singa muda; ia belajar menerkam, malah manusia ditelannya. 19:4 Bangsa-bangsa menyerukan: Singa mengamuk! akhirnya ia terjebak dalam pelubang mereka; mereka mengelikir dia dan menggiringnya ke Mesir. 19:5 Sesudah induk singa menyadari bahwa usahanya gagal dan pengharapannya hilang lenyap, ia mengambil anaknya yang lain dan membesarkannya menjadi singa muda. 19:6 Anaknya ini berjalan-jalan di antara kawanan singa, ia menjadi seekor singa muda; ia belajar menerkam, malah manusia ditelannya. 19:7 Ia merusak puri-puri mereka dan menumpas kota-kotanya; bumi serta segala isinya diam ketakutan mendengar suara aumnya. 19:8 Maka bangsa-bangsa bangkit melawan dia dari daerah-daerah sekelilingnya, mereka memasang jaring untuk menangkapnya dan menjebaknya dalam pelubang. 19:9 Ia dikurung dalam kandang, sambil dikelikir, dibawa ke hadapan raja Babel dan dimasukkan dalam penjara, supaya suaranya jangan kedengaran lagi di atas gunung-gunung Israel. 19:10 Ibumu seperti pohon anggur dalam kebun anggur, yang tertanam dekat air, berbuah dan bercabang karena air yang berlimpah-limpah. 19:11 Padanya tumbuh suatu cabang yang kuat yang menjadi tongkat kerajaan; ia menjulang tinggi di antara cabang-cabangnya yang rapat, dan menjadi kentara karena tingginya dan karena rantingnya yang banyak. 19:12 Tetapi ia tercabut di dalam kemarahan dan dilemparkan ke bumi; angin timur membuatnya layu kering, buahnya disentakkan, cabang yang kuat menjadi layu kering; dan api menghabiskannya. 19:13 Dan sekarang ia tertanam di padang gurun, di tanah yang kering dan haus akan air. 19:14 Maka keluarlah api dari cabangnya yang memakan habis ranting dan buahnya, sehingga tiada lagi padanya cabang yang kuat dan tiada tongkat kerajaan." Ini adalah ratapan dan sudah menjadi ratapan.

19:1 "Moreover take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
19:2 "and say: `What [is] your mother? A lioness: She lay down among the lions; Among the young lions she nourished her cubs.
19:3 She brought up one of her cubs, And he became a young lion; He learned to catch prey, And he devoured men.
19:4 The nations also heard of him; He was trapped in their pit, And they brought him with chains to the land of Egypt.
19:5 `When she saw that she waited, [that] her hope was lost, She took another of her cubs [and] made him a young lion.
19:6 He roved among the lions, And became a young lion; He learned to catch prey; He devoured men.
19:7 He knew their desolate places, And laid waste their cities; The land with its fullness was desolated By the noise of his roaring.
19:8 Then the nations set against him from the provinces on every side, And spread their net over him; He was trapped in their pit.
19:9 They put him in a cage with chains, And brought him to the king of Babylon; They brought him in nets, That his voice should no longer be heard on the mountains of Israel.
19:10 `Your mother [was] like a vine in your bloodline, Planted by the waters, Fruitful and full of branches Because of many waters.
19:11 She had strong branches for scepters of rulers. She towered in stature above the thick branches, And was seen in her height amid the dense foliage.
19:12 But she was plucked up in fury, She was cast down to the ground, And the east wind dried her fruit. Her strong branches were broken and withered; The fire consumed them.
19:13 And now she [is] planted in the wilderness, In a dry and thirsty land.
19:14 Fire has come out from a rod of her branches [And] devoured her fruit, So that she has no strong brancha scepter for ruling.'"This [is] a lamentation, and has become a lamentation.

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