CHAP. XIX.
The parable of the young lions:
and of the vine that
is wasted.
1 Moreover take
thou up a lamentation
for the princes of Israel,
2 And say: Why did note
thy mother the lioness lie down
among the lions, and bring up
her whelps in the midst of
young lions?
3 And she brought out
note one of her whelps, and
he became a lion: and he
learned to catch the prey, and
to devour men.
4 And the nations heard of
him, and took him, but not
without receiving wounds:
and they brought him in
chains into the land of Egypt.
5 But she seeing herself
weakened, and that her hope
was lost, took note another of
-- --
her whelps, and set him up
for a lion.
6 And he went up and
down among the lions, and
became a lion: and he learned
to catch the prey, and to devour
men.
7 He learned to make widows,
and to lay waste their cities:
and the land became desolate,
and the fulness thereof
by the noise of his roaring.
8 And the nations came
together against him on every
side out of the provinces, and
they spread their net over him,
in their wounds he was taken.
9 And they put him
into a cage, they brought
him in chains to the king of
Babylon: and they cast him
into prison, 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 water? her fruit and her
branches have grown out of
many waters.
11 And she had strong rods
to make scepters for them
that bear rule, and her stature
was exalted among the
branches: and she saw her
height in the multitude of her
branches.
12 But she was plucked
up in wrath, and cast on the
ground: and the burning wind
dried up her fruit: her strong
rods are withered, and dried
up: the fire hath devoured
her.
13 And now she is transplanted
into the desart, in a
land not passable, and dry.
14 And a fire is gone out
from a rod of her branches,
which hath devoured her
fruit: so that she now hath no
strong rod, to be a scepter of
rulers. This is a lamentation,
and it shall be for a lamentation.
Challoner [1752], THE NEW TESTAMENT OF Our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated out of the Latin Vulgat Diligently compared with the original Greek And first published by the English College of Rhemes, anno 1582. Newly revised, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures. WITH ANNOTATIONS For clearing up modern Controversies in Religion, and other Difficulties of Holy Writ () [word count] [B12000].
