Explanation: In Ezekiel 19 the LORD gives Ezekiel a lamentation for the princes of Israel. He compares Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, Jeconiah, and Zedekiah (the last kings of Judah until Jesus, the Messiah) to young lions which devoured men at first, but were captured and were put in chains (referring to Jehoiakim and Jeconiah). Their mother (Judah, particularly the house of David) was like a fruitful vine which was plucked up, cast down, dried out, and rendered fruitless.
     Today's painting depicts a lion hunt. Likewise, Judah's last kings, though they considered themselves to be as ferocious as lions, would be hunted and subdued.

          [ THEMATICALLY AND CHRONOLOGICALLY RELATED SCRIPTURES: Ezekiel 13. Ezekiel 14. Ezekiel 15. Ezekiel 16. Ezekiel 17. Ezekiel 18. Ezekiel 19. Ezekiel 20. Ezekiel 21. Ezekiel 22. Ezekiel 23. ]

          [ CHRONOLOGY: GENERAL. Patriarchs (Traditional). Judges # 1. Judges # 2. Kings # 1. Kings # 2. Prophets # 1. Prophets # 2. NT # 1. NT # 2. NT # 3. ]

          [ MAPS: Maps # 1. Maps # 2. Maps # 3. Maps # 4. Maps # 5. ]

          [ COMMENTARIES, ETC: GENERAL: Bible Study Tools; Bible Hub: Study Light; Blue Letter Bible // PSALMS: Monergism: Precept Austin: The Treasury of David; John Gill; John Calvin - Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

          [ MUSIC: GENERAL: The Cyber Hymnal // PSALMS: Genevan Psalter (Instrumental). VARIOUS ARTISTS: Micha'el Ben David. Sons of Korah. Fernando Ortega. Janet Isaac Morrison. Music of the Bible Revealed - Suzanne Haik-Vantoura. Dr. David Erb. Gregorian Chants. ]

3). The Allegories (15:1 - 23:49)

e). The Lions and the Vine: A Lamentation for Israel's Suffering (19:1-14)

     ¹ Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, ² And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions. ³ And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.

     ⁴ The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.

     ⁵ Now 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. ⁶ And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men. ⁷ And 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.

     ⁸ Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit. ⁹ And 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.

     ¹⁰ Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters. ¹¹ And 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.

     ¹² But 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.

     ¹³ And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground. 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.

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