Ezekiel 19:10-14

Your mother was ^alike a vine in your ¹vineyard,

Planted by the waters;

It was fruitful and full of branches

Because of abundant waters.

And it had ¹^astrong thick branches fit for scepters of rulers,

And its ^bheight was exalted above the clouds

So that it was seen in its exaltedness with the mass of its foliage.

But it was ^auprooted in wrath;

It was ^bcast down to the ground;

And the ^ceast wind dried up its fruit.

Its ¹^dstrong thick branch ²was torn off

So that ³it dried up;

The fire consumed it.

So now it is planted in the ^awilderness,

In a dry and thirsty land.

And ^afire has gone out from its thick branch;

It has consumed its shoots and fruit,

So that there is not in it a ¹strong thick branch,

A scepter to rule.’”

This is a lamentation and has become a lamentation.