Ezekiel Chapter 19

Lamentations for Israel’s princes

19:1 Then you take up a lamentation for the rulers of Israelיִשְׂרָאֵל
Transliteration: yiśrā’ēl The name Israel (Septuagint Ancient Greek: Ἰσραήλ, Israēl, “El (God) persists/rules” or “God prevails”) refers to the patriarch Jacob who, according to the Hebrew Bible, was given the name after he successfully wrestled with the Angel of the Lord. The earliest known archaeological artifact to mention the word Israel as a collective is the Merneptah Stele of ancient Egypt (dated to the late-13th century BCE) for more info click here,
19:2 And say, What is your mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
19:3 And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
19:4 The nationsגּוֹיִם‎
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Absolute (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts:—the Gentiles, the heathen, the nations, the people. For more info click here also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains to the land of Egyptמִצְרַיִם‎
Transliteration:miṣrayim – Pronunciation: mits-rah’-yim adjective, proper locative noun – Egypt = “land of the Copts (a member of a people descended from the ancient Egyptians)” . For more info click here.
19:5 Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.
19:6 And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.
19:7 And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid to waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness of it, by the noise of his roaring.
19:8 Then the nationsגּוֹיִם‎
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Absolute (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts:—the Gentiles, the heathen, the nations, the people. For more info click here placed against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.
19:9 And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylonבָּבֶל
Transliteration:bāḇel Pronunciation:baw-vel’, Babel or Babylon = “confusion (by mixing)” , the ancient site and/or capital of Babylonia (modern Hillah also spelled Hilla, is a city in central Iraq) situated on the Euphrates For more info click here: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no longer be heard on the mountains of Israelיִשְׂרָאֵל
Transliteration: yiśrā’ēl The name Israel (Septuagint Ancient Greek: Ἰσραήλ, Israēl, “El (God) persists/rules” or “God prevails”) refers to the patriarch Jacob who, according to the Hebrew Bible, was given the name after he successfully wrestled with the Angel of the Lord. The earliest known archaeological artifact to mention the word Israel as a collective is the Merneptah Stele of ancient Egypt (dated to the late-13th century BCE) for more info click here.

Lamentations for Jerusalem

19:10 Your mother is like a vine in your blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
19:11 And she had strong rods for the sceptersשֵׁבֶט‎
Transliteration: šēḇeṭ – (or sceptre in UK English) is a staff or wand held in the hand by a ruling monarch as an item of royal or imperial insignia, signifying sovereign – from an unused root probably meaning to branch off; a scion, i.e. (literally) a stick (for punishing, writing, fighting, ruling, walking, etc.) or (figuratively) a clan:—× correction, dart, rod, sceptre, staff, tribe For more info click here of those that bare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.
19:12 But she was plucked up in fury, she was thrown down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.
19:13 And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.
19:14 And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which has devoured her fruit, so that she has no strong rod to be a scepterשֵׁבֶט‎
Transliteration: šēḇeṭ – (or sceptre in UK English) is a staff or wand held in the hand by a ruling monarch as an item of royal or imperial insignia, signifying sovereign – from an unused root probably meaning to branch off; a scion, i.e. (literally) a stick (for punishing, writing, fighting, ruling, walking, etc.) or (figuratively) a clan:—× correction, dart, rod, sceptre, staff, tribe For more info click here to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.