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Ezekiel 19

Ezek. 19:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Moreover take thou up
nasa' (Hebrew #5375)
a primitive root; to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absol. and rel. (as follows)
KJV usage: accept, advance, arise, (able to, (armor), suffer to) bear(-er, up), bring (forth), burn, carry (away), cast, contain, desire, ease, exact, exalt (self), extol, fetch, forgive, furnish, further, give, go on, help, high, hold up, honorable (+ man), lade, lay, lift (self) up, lofty, marry, magnify, X needs, obtain, pardon, raise (up), receive, regard, respect, set (up), spare, stir up, + swear, take (away, up), X utterly, wear, yield.
Pronounce: naw-saw'
Origin: or nacah (Psalm 4 : 6 (7)) {naw-saw'}
a lamentation
qiynah (Hebrew #7015)
a dirge (as accompanied by beating the breasts or on instruments)
KJV usage: lamentation.
Pronounce: kee-naw'
Origin: from 6969
a for the princes
nasiy' (Hebrew #5387)
from 5375; properly, an exalted one, i.e. a king or sheik; also a rising mist
KJV usage: captain, chief, cloud, governor, prince, ruler, vapour.
Pronounce: naw-see'
Origin: or nasi8 {naw-see'}
of Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
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1-9:  A lamentation for the princes of Israel, under the parable of lion's whelps taken in a pit;
10-14:  and for Jerusalem, under the parable of a wasted vine.
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Ezek. 19:14• 14and a fire is gone out of a rod of its branches, which hath devoured its fruit; so that it hath no strong rod to be a sceptre for ruling. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation. (Ezek. 19:14)
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Ezek. 2:10• 10And he spread it out before me; and it was written within and without; and there were written in it lamentations, and mourning, and woe. (Ezek. 2:10)
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Ezek. 26:17• 17And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How hast thou perished, that wast inhabited from the seas, O renowned city, which wast strong in the sea,--she and her inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on all them that dwell therein! (Ezek. 26:17)
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Ezek. 27:2• 2And thou, son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre, (Ezek. 27:2)
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Ezek. 32:16,18• 16It is a lamentation, and thus they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall say it in lamenting; they shall say it in lamenting over Egypt and over all her multitude, saith the Lord Jehovah.
18Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, her and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the lower parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.
(Ezek. 32:16,18)
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Jer. 9:1,10,17‑18• 1Oh that my head were waters, and mine eye a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
10For the mountains will I take up weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness, a lamentation; for they are burnt up, so that none passeth through them; and the voice of the cattle is not heard. Both the fowl of the heavens and the beasts are fled; they are gone.
17Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come, and send for the skilful women, that they may come;
18and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids pour forth waters.
(Jer. 9:1,10,17‑18)
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Jer. 13:17‑18• 17And if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because Jehovah's flock is gone into captivity.
18Say unto the king and to the queen: Humble yourselves, sit down low; for from your heads shall come down the crown of your magnificence.
(Jer. 13:17‑18)
the princes.
2 Kings 23:29‑30,34• 29In his days Pharaoh-Nechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates; and king Josiah went against him; but Nechoh slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.
30And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead.
34And Pharaoh-Nechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king instead of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. And he took Jehoahaz; and he came to Egypt, and died there.
(2 Kings 23:29‑30,34)
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2 Kings 24:6,12• 6And Jehoiakim slept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
12And Jehoiachin king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his chamberlains; and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.
(2 Kings 24:6,12)
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2 Kings 25:5‑7• 5And the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
6And they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon unto Riblah; and they pronounced judgment upon him,
7and slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with chains of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
(2 Kings 25:5‑7)
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2 Chron. 35:25• 25And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah; and all the singing men and singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day; and they made them an ordinance for Israel. And behold, they are written in the lamentations. (2 Chron. 35:25)
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2 Chron. 36:3,6,10• 3And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and imposed a fine upon the land of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
6Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him with chains of brass to carry him to Babylon.
10And at the turn of the year king Nebuchadnezzar sent and had him brought to Babylon, with the precious vessels of the house of Jehovah; and he made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.
(2 Chron. 36:3,6,10)
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Jer. 22:10‑12,18‑19,28,30• 10Weep not for the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep sore for him that goeth away, for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.
11For thus saith Jehovah concerning Shallum the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, who went forth out of this place: He shall not return thither any more;
12for he shall die in the place whither they have led him captive, and shall see this land no more.
18Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah: They shall not lament for him, Ah, my brother! or, Ah, sister! They shall not lament for him, Ah, lord! or Ah, his glory!
19He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, dragged along and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
28Is this man Coniah a despised broken vase? a vessel wherein is no delight? Wherefore are they thrown out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?
30Thus saith Jehovah: Write this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days; for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.
(Jer. 22:10‑12,18‑19,28,30)
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Jer. 24:1,8• 1Jehovah shewed me, and behold, two baskets of figs, set before the temple of Jehovah, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive from Jerusalem, Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, and the craftsmen and smiths, and had brought them to Babylon.
8And as the bad figs, which cannot be eaten for badness, surely, thus saith Jehovah: So will I make Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the remnant of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt.
(Jer. 24:1,8)
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Jer. 52:10‑11,25‑27• 10And the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes; and he slaughtered also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.
11And he put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with chains of brass; and the king of Babylon carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.
25And out of the city he took a eunuch that was set over the men of war, and seven men of them that were in the king's presence, who were found in the city, and the scribe of the captain of the host, who enrolled the people of the land. And sixty men of the people of the land that were found in the midst of the city.
26And Nebuzar-adan the captain of the body-guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah;
27and the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his land.
(Jer. 52:10‑11,25‑27)
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Lam. 4:20• 20The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Jehovah, was taken in their pits; of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations. (Lam. 4:20)
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Lam. 5:12• 12Princes were hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders were not honoured. (Lam. 5:12)
 Chapter 19 is a lamentation for the princes, as the previous one demonstrated the peopled state, the soul's condition in all. (Notes on Ezekiel 18-19 by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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