14 And (A)fire has gone out from its stem;
It has consumed its shoots and fruit,
So that there is no [a]strong stem in it,
A scepter to rule.’”

This is a song of mourning, and has become a song of mourning.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 19:14 Lit stem of strength

14 Fire spread from one of its main[a] branches
    and consumed(A) its fruit.
No strong branch is left on it
    fit for a ruler’s scepter.’(B)

“This is a lament(C) and is to be used as a lament.”

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  1. Ezekiel 19:14 Or from under its

15 Though he (A)flourishes among the [a]reeds,
An (B)east wind will come,
The wind of the Lord coming up from the wilderness;
And his fountain will (C)become dry
And his spring will dry up;
It will (D)plunder his treasury of every precious article.

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  1. Hosea 13:15 Another reading is brothers

15     even though he thrives(A) among his brothers.
An east wind(B) from the Lord will come,
    blowing in from the desert;
his spring will fail
    and his well dry up.(C)
His storehouse will be plundered(D)
    of all its treasures.

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