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\c 19
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\p
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\v 1 Yahweh said to me,
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\v 2 "Ezekiel, sing a sad funeral song which will be a parable about the leaders of Israel. Say to the Israelite people,
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\q1 'It is as though your mother had been a brave female lion
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\q2 who raised her cubs among other lions.
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\q1
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\v 3 She taught one of them to hunt for other animals to kill,
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\q2 and he even learned to kill and eat people.
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\q1
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\v 4 When people from other nations heard about him,
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\q2 they trapped him in a pit.
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\q1 Then they used hooks
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\q2 to drag him to Egypt.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 5 His mother waited for him to return,
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\q2 but soon she stopped hoping for that to happen.
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\q1 So she raised another cub
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\q2 who also became very fierce.
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\q1
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\v 6 He hunted along with other lions for animals to kill,
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\q2 and he even learned to kill and eat people.
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\q1
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\v 7 He raped his victims' widows,
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\q2 and he destroyed cities.
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\q1 When he roared loudly,
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\q2 everyone was terrified and abandoned everything they owned.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 8 So people of other nations planned to kill him;
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\q2 and men came from many places
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\q1 to spread out a net for him.
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\q2 They caught him in it.
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\q1
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\v 9 They put him into an iron cage and dragged it with hooks and chains;
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\q2 they took him to the king of Babylon.
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\q1 There they locked him up in a mountain prison,
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\q2 with the result that no one on the hills of Israel ever heard him roar again.'
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\b
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\p Also, say to the Israelite people:
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 10 'It is as though your mother
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\q2 were a grapevine fertilized in blood,
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\q2 and growing up beside a stream.
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\q1 There was plenty of water,
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\q2 so it had lots of branches and produced a lot of grapes.
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\q1
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\v 11 That grapevine grew and became taller than all the nearby trees;
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\q2 everyone could see that it was very strong and healthy.
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\q1 And those branches were good for making scepters that symbolize the power of a king.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 12 But Yahweh became very angry,
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\q2 so he pulled up the vine by its roots
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\q1 and threw it on the ground,
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\q2 where the very hot winds from the desert dried up all its fruit.
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\q1 The strong branches wilted and were burned in a fire.
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\q2
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\v 13 Now Yahweh has planted that vine in a hot, dry desert.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 14 A fire started to burn its stem,
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\q2 and then started to burn the branches;
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\q1 it burned all the grapes.
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\q2 Now not even one strong branch remains;
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\q1 they will never become scepters for a king.'
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\b
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\m This funeral song must be sung very sadly."
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