Ezekiel 19

Ezekiel presents a lamentation for the princes of Israel as two allegories: a lioness (symbolizing Israel or Jerusalem) raises two cubs—likely Jehoahaz, captured and exiled to Egypt, and Jehoiachin, captured and taken to Babylon—both fierce rulers who devoured prey but were trapped by nations.[1][2][5] The lament continues with the mother as a fruitful vine whose strong stem (a ruler's scepter) is plucked up in fury by the east wind, withered, and transplanted to a dry wilderness, with fire from one of its branches (Zedekiah) devouring its fruit, leaving no strong branch for rule.[2][5]

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