Ezekiel 19:1

Translations

Modern

“As for you, take up a lament for the princes of Israel

Traditional

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

Literal

“ And you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

Latin

Et tu assume planctum super principes Israël,

Original

Hebrew

English

“As for you, take up a lament for the princes of Israel

Notes

Ezekiel 19:1–14

In the ancient Near East, a funeral song had a special rhythm and style. It usually praised the good qualities of the person who had died. It also compared past glory with the present loss.
In this chapter, however, the people being mourned were not yet dead. The song does not praise them. Instead, it lists their sins and failures. This funeral song clearly shows that their judgment was certain and explains why it would happen.
The lion (Ezekiel 19:2–9) and the vine (19:10–14) were common pictures for Israel’s princes and for the royal family of Judah. These images would have been familiar to the people who first heard this message.

Ezekiel 15:1–24:14

This section includes eight metaphors, each showing from a different angle the certainty of Jerusalem's upcoming judgment. The images are of:

a worthless vine (Ezekiel 15);
a faithless wife (Ezekiel 16);
a vine and two eagles (Ezekiel 17);
Sour grapes (Ezekiel 18);
a lion and her cubs (Ezekiel 19);
a sword (Ezekiel 21);
two corrupt sisters (Ezekiel 23); and
a cooking pot (Ezekiel 24).

Events

Prophecies of Ezekielc. 593 BC

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Ezekiel 27:2
“Now you, son of man, take up a lament for Tyre.
Ezekiel 26:17
Then they will lament for you, saying, “How you have perished, O city of renown inhabited by seafaring men—she who was powerful on the sea, along with her people, who imposed terror on all peoples!
Ezekiel 2:10
…which He unrolled before me. And written on the front and back of it were words of lamentation, mourning, and woe.
2 Kings 25:5–7
…but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and his whole army deserted him.
2 Kings 24:12
Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his officials all surrendered to the king of Babylon. So in the eighth year of his reign, the king of Babylon took him captive.
Ezekiel 19:14
Fire has gone out from its main branch and devoured its fruit; on it no strong branch remains fit for a ruler’s scepter.’ This is a lament and shall be used as a lament.”
2 Kings 24:6
And Jehoiakim rested with his fathers, and his son Jehoiachin reigned in his place.
2 Kings 23:34
Then Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim son of Josiah king in place of his father Josiah, and he changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took Jehoahaz and carried him off to Egypt, where he died.
2 Kings 23:29–30
During Josiah’s reign, Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt marched up to help the king of Assyria at the Euphrates River. King Josiah went out to confront him, but Neco faced him and killed him at Megiddo.
2 Chronicles 35:25
Then Jeremiah lamented over Josiah, and to this day all the male and female singers recite laments over Josiah. They established them as a statute for Israel, and indeed they are written in the Book of Laments.
Ezekiel 32:18
“Son of man, wail for the multitudes of Egypt, and consign her and the daughters of the mighty nations to the depths of the earth with those who descend to the Pit:
Jeremiah 22:10–12
Do not weep for him who is dead; do not mourn his loss. Weep bitterly for him who is exiled, for he will never return to see his native land.

People

Israel: Patriarch, son of Isaac, father of twelve tribes

Glossary

Ezekiel, Book of Lion

Topics

Babylon: Empire of Prophecies of Conquests By Ezekiel: Other Parables Lamentations of Ezekiel Lion: Parable of Parables of Lions' Cubs Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments

Ezekiel 19:1

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