26:018:029 Yet saith the house of Israel, The way
of the lord is not
equal.
O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your
ways
unequal?
26:018:030 Therefore I will judge you, O house of
Israel, every one
according
to his ways, saith the Lord god. Repent,
and turn
yourselves
from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not
be
your ruin.
26:018:031 Cast away from you all your transgressions,
whereby ye have
transgressed;
and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for
why
will ye die, O house of Israel?
26:018:032 For I have no pleasure in the death of
him that dieth, saith
the
Lord god: wherefore turn yourselves, and
live ye.
26:019:001 Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
26:019:002 And say, What is thy mother? A lioness:
she lay down among
lions,
she nourished her whelps among young lions.
26:019:003 And she brought up one of her whelps:
it became a young lion,
and
it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
26:019:004 The nations also heard of him; he was taken
in their pit, and
they
brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.
26:019:005 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.
26:019:006 And he went up and down among the lions,
he became a young
lion,
and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.
26:019:007 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.
26:019:008 Then the nations set against him on every
side from the
provinces,
and spread their net over him: he was taken in
their
pit.
26:019:009 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.
26:019:010 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.
26:019:011 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.
26:019:012 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.
26:019:013 And now she is planted in the wilderness,
in a dry and thirsty
ground.


