Ezekiel 19:1

THE MESSAGE

Sing the blues over the princes of Israel. Say: What a lioness was your mother among lions! She crouched in a pride of young lions. Her cubs grew large. She reared one of her cubs to maturity, a robust young lion. He learned to hunt. He ate men. Nations sounded the alarm. He was caught in a trap. They took him with hooks and dragged him to Egypt.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“As for you, take up a lament for the princes of Israel,

Hebrew Names Version
Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Yisra'el,

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

English Standard Version
And you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

New American Standard Bible
"As for you, take up a song of mourning for the leaders of Israel

New Century Version
"Sing a funeral song for the leaders of Israel.

Amplified Bible
"As for you, take up a dirge (funeral poem to be sung) for the princes of Israel

World English Bible
Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou also, take vp a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"As for you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel

Legacy Standard Bible
"As for you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel

Berean Standard Bible
As for you, take up a lament for the princes of Israel

Contemporary English Version
The Lord said: Ezekiel, sing a funeral song for two of Israel's leaders:

Complete Jewish Bible
"Moreover, raise a lament for the leaders of Isra'el;

Darby Translation
And thou, take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord said to me, "You must sing this sad song about the leaders of Israel:

George Lamsa Translation
MOREOVER, you Son of man, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

Good News Translation
The Lord told me to sing this song of sorrow for two princes of Israel:

Lexham English Bible
"And you, raise a lament about the leaders of Israel,

Literal Translation
And you lift up a lament for the rulers of Israel,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Bvt mourne thou for the prynces off Israel,

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

Bible in Basic English
Take up now a song of grief for the ruler of Israel, and say,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Moreover, take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

King James Version (1611)
Moreouer, take thou vp a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou also take vp a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Moreover do thou take up a lamentation for the prince of Israel,

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thou, sone of man, take weiling on the princes of Israel;

Update Bible Version
Moreover, take yourself up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

Webster's Bible Translation
Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

New English Translation
"And you, sing a lament for the princes of Israel,

New King James Version
"Moreover take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

New Living Translation
"Sing this funeral song for the princes of Israel:

New Life Bible
"As for you, sing a song of sorrow for the leaders of Israel,

New Revised Standard
As for you, raise up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thou. therefore take up a dirge, for the prince of Israel;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

Revised Standard Version
And you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

Young's Literal Translation
And thou, lift up a lamentation unto princes of Israel,

Contextual Overview

¹Sing the blues over the princes of Israel. Say: What a lioness was your mother among lions! She crouched in a pride of young lions. Her cubs grew large. She reared one of her cubs to maturity, a robust young lion. He learned to hunt. He ate men. Nations sounded the alarm. He was caught in a trap. They took him with hooks and dragged him to Egypt. ⁵When the lioness saw she was luckless, that her hope for that cub was gone, She took her other cub and made him a strong young lion. He prowled with the lions, a robust young lion. He learned to hunt. He ate men. He rampaged through their defenses, left their cities in ruins. The country and everyone in it was terrorized by the roars of the lion. The nations got together to hunt him. Everyone joined the hunt. They set out their traps and caught him. They put a wooden collar on him and took him to the king of Babylon. No more would that voice be heard disturbing the peace in the mountains of Israel!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

take: Ezekiel 19:14, Ezekiel 2:10, Ezekiel 26:17, Ezekiel 27:2, Ezekiel 32:16, Ezekiel 32:18, Jeremiah 9:1, Jeremiah 9:10, Jeremiah 9:17, Jeremiah 9:18, Jeremiah 13:17, Jeremiah 13:18

the princes: 2 Kings 23:29, 2 Kings 23:30, 2 Kings 23:34, 2 Kings 24:6, 2 Kings 24:12, 2 Kings 25:5-7, 2 Chronicles 35:25, 2 Chronicles 36:3, 2 Chronicles 36:6, 2 Chronicles 36:10, Jeremiah 22:10-12, Jeremiah 22:18, Jeremiah 22:19, Jeremiah 22:28, Jeremiah 22:30, Jeremiah 24:1, Jeremiah 24:8, Jeremiah 52:10, Jeremiah 52:11, Jeremiah 52:25-27, Lamentations 4:20, Lamentations 5:12

Reciprocal: Psalms 76:4 - mountains Jeremiah 7:29 - and take Ezekiel 28:12 - take up Ezekiel 32:2 - take up Amos 5:1 - I take

Cross-References

Genesis 18:22
The men set out for Sodom, but Abraham stood in God 's path, blocking his way.

Genesis 19:1
The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening. Lot was sitting at the city gate. He saw them and got up to welcome them, bowing before them and said, "Please, my friends, come to my house and stay the night. Wash up. You can rise early and be on your way refreshed." They said, "No, we'll sleep in the street."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Moreover, take thou up a lamentation,.... These words are directed to the Prophet Ezekiel, to compose a doleful ditty, a mournful song, such as was used at funerals; and by it represent the lamentable state of the nation of the Jews and their governors, in order to affect them with it, with what was past, and present, and yet to come:

for the princes of Israel; or, "concerning them" s; the princes meant are Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, Jeconiah, and Zedekiah, who were kings, though called princes, these words being synonymous; or, if so called by way of diminution, the reason might be, because they were tributary, either to the king of Egypt, or king of Babylon.

s אל נשיאי ישראל "de principibus Israel", Junius Tremellius, Piscator, Polanus, Starckius so Ben Melech.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Princes of Israel - Israel is the whole nation over which the king of Judah was the rightful sovereign. Compare Ezekiel 2:3; Ezekiel 3:1, Ezekiel 3:7.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XIX

This chapter contains two beautiful examples of the parabolic

kind of writing; the one lamenting the sad catastrophe of

Jehoahaz and Jehoiakim, 1-9,

and the other describing the desolation and captivity of the

whole people, 10-14.

In the first parable, the lioness is Jerusalem. The first of

the young lions is Jehoahaz, deposed by the king of Egypt; and

the second lion is Jehoiakim, whose rebellion drew on himself

the vengeance of the king of Babylon. In the second parable the

vine is the Jewish nation, which long prospered, its land being

fertile, its princes powerful, and its people flourishing; but

the judgments of God, in consequence of their guilt, had now

destroyed a great part of the people, and doomed the rest to

captivity.

NOTES ON CHAP. XIX

Verse Ezekiel 19:1. Moreover take thou up a lamentation — Declare what is the great subject of sorrow in Israel. Compose a funeral dirge. Show the melancholy fate of the kings who proceeded from Josiah. The prophet deplores the misfortune of Jehoahaz and Jehoiakim, under the figure of two lion whelps, which were taken by hunters, and confined in cages. Next he shows the desolation of Jerusalem under Zedekiah, which he compares to a beautiful vine pulled up by the roots, withered, and at last burned. Calmet justly observes, that the style of this song is beautiful, and the allegory well supported throughout.