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title: "Commentary on Ezekiel, Volume 2"
author: "John Calvin"
translator: "Thomas Myers"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Commentaries"
section: 58 of 69
url: https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-ezekiel-volume-2/58/
cite: "John Calvin, tr. Thomas Myers, Commentary on Ezekiel, Volume 2, section 58. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-ezekiel-volume-2/58/"
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# Commentary on Ezekiel, Volume 2

*John Calvin, tr. Thomas Myers*

Calvin on the prophet Ezekiel, volume 2 of 2.

## 58. Chapter 19

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[¶0] 1 Wherefore take you up this mournful strain against the princes of Israel,

[¶1] 2 And say, Why did thy mother — a lioness — Lie down among lions? she brought up her whelps In the midst of lions.

[¶2] 3 Then she bore one of her whelps, and he was made a lion: Then he learnt to seize his prey, and he devoured men.

[¶3] 4 Then the Gentiles heard of him; he was taken in their pit, And they led him in chains into the land of Egypt.

[¶4] 5 Then she saw what she had hoped for, and how her hope had perished; And she took another of her whelps, and made him a lion.

[¶5] 6 Then he walked in the midst of lions, and became a lion; And he learnt to seize the prey, and devoured men.

[¶6] 7 Then he harassed their palaces and destroyed their cities; And the land was rendered desolate, and all its fullness, By the voice of his roaring.

[¶7] 8 Then the nations set themselves against him From all sides and regions, and spread their net over him. He was taken in their pitfall: and they put him in ward,

[¶8] 9 And brought him in chains to the king of Babylon. They led him into strongholds, that his voice Might be no longer heard in the mountains of Israel.

[¶9] 10 Thy mother, when she bore thee, was planted like a vine near the waters: She was fruitful and branching beside many waters.

[¶10] 11 And the rods of her strength were for scepters for rulers, And her stature was elevated, and appeared aloft In the multitude of her branches.

[¶11] 12 Then she was torn in fury, and cast on the ground; And the east wind dried up her fruit; Her strong rods were broken off and dried up; The fire consumed them; and now she is planted

[¶12] 13 In the desert, in a land of dryness and thirst.

[¶13] 14 Then a fire went forth from the rod of her branches, and devoured her fruit; And there was not a rod of strength in her — a scepter for ruling. This is the lamentation, and shall be for a wailing.