Ezekiel 19 - Compare Translations
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Ezekiel 19:1
KJVMoreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
WEB“Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
YLTAnd thou, lift up a lamentation unto princes of Israel,
Ezekiel 19:2
KJVAnd say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
WEBand say,
YLTand thou hast said: What [is] thy mother? -- a lioness, Among lions she hath crouched down, In the midst of young lions she hath multiplied her whelps.
Ezekiel 19:3
KJVAnd she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
WEBShe brought up one of her cubs.
YLTAnd she bringeth up one of her whelps, A young lion it hath been, And it learneth to tear prey, man it hath devoured.
Ezekiel 19:4
KJVThe nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.
WEBThe nations also heard of him.
YLTAnd hear of it do nations, In their pit it hath been caught, And they bring it in with chains unto the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 19:5
KJVNow when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.
WEB“‘Now when she saw that she had waited,
YLTAnd she seeth, that stayed -- perished hath her hope, And she taketh one of her whelps, A young lion she hath made it.
Ezekiel 19:6
KJVAnd he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.
WEBHe went up and down among the lions.
YLTAnd it goeth up and down in the midst of lions, A young lion it hath been, And it learneth to tear prey, man it hath devoured.
Ezekiel 19:7
KJVAnd he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.
WEBHe knew their palaces,
YLTAnd it knoweth his forsaken habitations, And their cities it hath laid waste, And desolate is the land and its fulness, Because of the voice of his roaring.
Ezekiel 19:8
KJVThen the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.
WEBThen the nations attacked him on every side from the provinces.
YLTAnd set against it do nations Round about from the provinces. And they spread out for it their net, In their pit it hath been caught.
Ezekiel 19:9
KJVAnd they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.
WEBThey put him in a cage with hooks,
YLTAnd they put it in prison -- in chains, And they bring it unto the king of Babylon, They bring it in unto bulwarks, So that its voice is not heard any more On mountains of Israel.
Ezekiel 19:10
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Ezekiel 19:11
KJVAnd she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.
WEBIt had strong branches for the scepters of those who ruled.
YLTAnd it hath strong rods for sceptres of rulers, And high is its stature above thick branches, And it appeareth in its height In the multitude of its thin shoots.
Ezekiel 19:12
KJVBut she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.
WEBBut it was plucked up in fury.
YLTAnd it is plucked up in fury, To the earth it hath been cast, And the east wind hath dried up its fruit, Broken and withered hath been the rod of its strength, Fire hath consumed it.
Ezekiel 19:13
KJVAnd now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.
WEBNow it is planted in the wilderness,
YLTAnd now -- it is planted in a wilderness, In a land dry and thirsty.
Ezekiel 19:14
KJVAnd fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
WEBFire has gone out of its branches.
YLTAnd go forth doth fire from a rod of its boughs, Its fruit it hath devoured, And it hath no rod of strength -- a sceptre to rule, Lamentation it [is] -- and it is for a lamentation!'
14 verses compared across 3 translations - KJV, WEB, YLT