Ezekiel 19 · Verse 1

Ezekiel 19:1

Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
Ezekiel 19:1, King James Version

Ezekiel 19:1 in other translations

BSB“As for you, take up a lament for the princes of Israel
WEB“Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
ASVMoreover, take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
YLTAnd thou, lift up a lamentation unto princes of Israel,
DARBYAnd thou, take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
BBETake up now a song of grief for the ruler of Israel, and say,
WebsterMoreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

What does Ezekiel 19:1 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

Eze 19:1-14. Elegy over the Fall of David's House.

There is a tacit antithesis between this lamentation and that of the Jews for their own miseries, into the causes of which, however, they did not inquire. 1. princes of Israel--that is, Judah, whose "princes" alone were recognized by prophecy; those of the ten tribes were, in respect to the theocracy, usurpers.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Introduction

This chapter contains two beautiful examples of the parabolic kind of writing; the one lamenting the sad catastrophe of Jehoahaz and Jehoiakim, Eze 19:1-9, and the other describing the desolation and captivity of the whole people, Eze 19:10-14. In the first parable, the lioness is Jerusalem. The first of the young lions is Jehoahaz, deposed by the king of Egypt; and the second lion is Jehoiakim, whose rebellion drew on himself the vengeance of the king of Babylon. In the second parable the vine is the Jewish nation, which long prospered, its land being fertile, its princes powerful, and its people flourishing; but the judgments of God, in consequence of their guilt, had now destroyed a great part of the people, and doomed the rest to captivity. Verse 1 Moreover take thou up a lamentation - Declare what is the great subject of sorrow in Israel. Compose a funeral dirge. Show Be melancholy fate of the kings who proceeded from Josiah. The prophet deplores the misfortune of Jehoahaz and Jehoiakim, under the figure of two lion whelps, which were taken by hunters, and confined in cages. Next he shows the desolation of Jerusalem under Zedekiah, which he compares to a beautiful vine pulled up by the roots, withered, and at last burned. Calmet justly observes, that the style of this song is beautiful, and the allegory well supported throughout.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ezekiel 19:1-9
A parable lamenting the ruin of Jehoahaz and Jehoiakim. (Ezek 19:1-9) Another describing the desolation of the people. (Ezek 19:10-14) Verses 1-9 Ezekiel is to compare the kingdom of Judah to a lioness. He must compare the kings of Judah to a lion's whelps; they were cruel and oppressive to their own subjects. The righteousness of God is to be acknowledged, when those who have terrified and enslaved others, are themselves terrified and enslaved. When professors of religion form connexions with ungodly persons, their children usually grow up following after the maxims and fashions of a wicked world. Advancement to authority discovers the ambition and selfishness of men's hearts; and those who spend their lives in mischief, generally end them by violence.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Ezekiel 19:1 in the original Hebrew

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וְאַתָּה֙ve.'a.Tahand youH859
שָׂ֣אsa'take upH5375
קִינָ֔הki.Naha lamentationH7015
אֶל\־'el-because ofH413
נְשִׂיאֵ֖יne.si.'Ei[the] princes ofH5387
יִשְׂרָאֵֽל\׃Yis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478

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Cross references for Ezekiel 19:1

  • Ezekiel 26:17

    And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!

  • Ezekiel 27:2

    Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;

  • 2 Kings 23:29-30

    In his days Pharaoh–nechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him. And 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.

  • 2 Kings 24:12

    And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.

  • 2 Kings 25:5-7

    And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him. So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him. And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.

  • Ezekiel 19:14

    And 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.

  • 2 Kings 24:6

    So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.

  • Ezekiel 2:10

    And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.

  • 2 Kings 23:34

    And Pharaoh–nechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there.

  • Jeremiah 9:10

    For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.

  • Jeremiah 22:30

    Thus saith the Lord, Write ye 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.

  • 2 Chronicles 35:25

    And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
1 A lamentation for the princes of Israel, under the parable of lion's whelps taken in a pit;
10 and for Jerusalem, under the parable of a wasted vine.

take.
14; 2:10; 26:17; 27:2; 32:16,18; Jer 9:1,10,17,18; 13:17,18
the princes.
2Ki 23:29,30,34; 24:6,12; 25:5-7; 2Ch 35:25; 36:3,6,10
Jer 22:10-12,18,19,28,30; 24:1,8; 52:10,11,25-27; La 4:20; 5:12

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Context

  • Ezekiel 19:1

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

  • Ezekiel 19:2

    And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.

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Ezekiel 19:1 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y TÚ levanta endecha sobre los príncipes de Israel.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		*Et toi, élève une complainte sur les princes d’Israël,
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und du, erhebe ein Klagelied über die Fürsten Israels
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Et tu assume planctum super principes Israël,