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The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto
the land of Egypt.
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.
6
And he went up and down among the lions,
he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey,
and
devoured men.
7
And he knew their
desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof,
by the noise of his roaring.
8
Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces,
and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.
9
And they put him in ward in chains, and
brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be
heard upon the mountains of Israel.
10
Thy mother
is
like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of
branches by reason of many waters.
11
And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare
rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the
multitude of her branches.
12
But 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.
13
And now she
is
planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.
14
And fire is gone out of
a rod of her branches,
which
hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod
to be
a sceptre
to rule. This
is
a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
CHAPTER 20
And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth
month,
the tenth
day
of the month,
that
certain
of the elders of Israel came to enquire of the L
ORD
, and sat before me.
2
Then came the word of the
L
ORD
unto me, saying,
3
Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith
the Lord GOD; Are ye come to enquire of me?
As
I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired
of by you.
4
Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge
them?
cause them to know the
abominations of their fathers:
5
And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up
mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of
Egypt, when I lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I
am
the L
ORD
your God;
6
In the day
that
I
lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied
for them, flowing with milk and honey, which
is
the glory of all lands:
7
Then said I unto them,
Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of
Egypt: I
am
the L
ORD
your God.
8
But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me:
they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols
of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them to accomplish my anger against them in
the midst of the land of Egypt.
9
But I wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted
before the heathen, among whom they
were,
in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in
bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.
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