Ezekiel 19

¹Yahweh said to me, “Ezekiel, sing a sad funeral songa which will be a parable abouttwo of the kings of Israel.

²Say to the Israeli people,

³She taught one of them to huntfor other animals to kill,

⁴When people from other nations heard about him,

⁵His mother waited for him to return,

⁶He hunted along with other lionsfor animals to kill,

⁷He destroyed forts,

⁸So people of other nations planned to kill him,

⁹They tied him with chains

¹⁰‘It is as though [SIM] your mother was a grapevine

¹¹That grapevine grew and became taller than all the nearby trees;

¹²ButYahweh became very angry,

¹³Now that vine has been planted in a hot, dry desert.

¹⁴A fire started to burn its stem,