Ezekiel 19

World English Bible 84 include this book

1 “Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

2 and say, ‘What was your mother? A lioness. She couched among lions, in the middle of the young lions she nourished her cubs.

3 She brought up one of her cubs. He became a young lion. He learned to catch the prey. He devoured men.

4 The nations also heard of him. He was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.

5 “‘Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her cubs, and made him a young lion.

6 He went up and down among the lions. He became a young lion. He learned to catch the prey. He devoured men.

7 He knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities. The land was desolate with its fullness, because of the noise of his roaring.

8 Then the nations attacked him on every side from the provinces. They spread their net over him. He was taken in their pit.

9 They put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon. They brought him into strongholds, so that his voice should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel.

10 “‘Your mother was like a vine in your blood, planted by the waters. It was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

11 It had strong branches for the scepters of those who ruled. Their stature was exalted among the thick boughs. They were seen in their height with the multitude of their branches.

12 But it was plucked up in fury. It was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branches were broken off and withered. The fire consumed them.

13 Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.

14 Fire has gone out of its branches. It has devoured its fruit, so that there is in it no strong branch to be a scepter to rule.’ This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.”

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1 place named in this chapter.

Where this was written

Babylon attested Ezekiel prophesied among the exiles by the river Chebar in Babylonia.

When this was written

The traditions broadly agree on this one.

Broad agreement: 593 BC–571 BC Ezekiel
The book carries an unusually precise sequence of dated oracles.

Elsewhere in the world

Events overlapping the period this book is dated to (593 BC–571 BC).

1200 BC–400 BC Olmec civilisation Mesoamerica
The earliest major Mesoamerican civilisation, known for colossal stone heads and an early calendar.
1070 BC–350 AD The kingdom of Kush Africa
A Nubian power on the upper Nile that ruled Egypt itself as its twenty-fifth dynasty.
624 BC–546 BC Greek philosophy begins at Miletus Greece
Thales sought natural rather than mythic explanations, the beginning of Greek science.
620 BC–560 BC Coinage invented in Lydia Anatolia
Stamped electrum coins of guaranteed weight, an idea that spread across the ancient world within a century.
600 BC–500 BC Daoism takes shape in China China
The teaching associated with Laozi, emphasising harmony with the natural order.
599 BC–527 BC Mahavira and the rise of Jainism India
A contemporary of the Buddha whose teaching centred on non-violence toward every living thing.
587 BC–586 BC Fall of Jerusalem and the Babylonian exile Levant
Nebuchadnezzar II destroyed the temple and deported the Judean elite to Babylon.

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