Ezekiel 19:14

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

Fire went out from its branch, consuming its fruit. There was no strong rod left in it, no scepter fit to rule. This is a lamentation, and it has become a lamentation.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    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.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    And fire has gone out from a rod of her branches, which has devoured her fruit, so that she has no strong rod to be a scepter to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And fire{H784} is gone out{H3318} of the rods{H4294} of its branches,{H905} it hath devoured{H398} its fruit,{H6529} so that there is in it no strong{H5797} rod{H4294} to be a sceptre{H7626} to rule.{H4910} This is a lamentation,{H7015} and shall be for a lamentation.{H7015}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And fire{H784} is gone out{H3318}{(H8799)} of a rod{H4294} of her branches{H905}, which hath devoured{H398}{(H8804)} her fruit{H6529}, so that she hath no strong{H5797} rod{H4294} to be a sceptre{H7626} to rule{H4910}{(H8800)}. This is a lamentation{H7015}, and shall be for a lamentation{H7015}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    And there is a fyre gone out of hir stalkes, which hath bret vp hir braunches and hir frute: so that she hath no mo stronge stalkes, to be staues for officers. This is a piteous and miserable thinge.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath deuoured her fruite, so that she hath no strong rod to be a scepter to rule: this is a lamentation and shalbe for a lamentation.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And there is a fire gone out of the rodde of her brauches, it hath deuoured her fruite, so that she hath no strong rodde for a scepter to rule: This is a lamentation, and shalbe for a lamentation.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Fire is gone out of the rods of its branches, it has devoured its fruit, so that there is in it no strong rod to be a scepter to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And go forth doth fire from a rod of its boughs, Its fruit it hath devoured, And it hath no rod of strength -- a sceptre to rule, Lamentation it `is' -- and it is for a lamentation!'

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And fire is gone out of the rods of its branches, it hath devoured its fruit, so that there is in it no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And fire is gone out of the rods of its branches, it hath devoured its fruit, so that there is in it no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    And fire has gone out from her rod, causing the destruction of her branches, so that there is no strong rod in her to be the ruler's rod of authority. This is a song of grief, and it was for a song of grief.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Fire is gone out of the rods of its branches, it has devoured its fruit, so that there is in it no strong rod to be a scepter to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    A fire has gone out from its branch; it has consumed its shoot and its fruit. No strong branch was left in it, nor a scepter to rule.’ This is a lament song, and has become a lament song.”

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Kgs 24:20 : 20 Because of the LORD's anger, this happened to Jerusalem and Judah until He cast them out of His presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
  • Ezek 19:1 : 1 Now you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel.
  • Ezek 19:11 : 11 Its branches were strong, fit for rulers' scepters. It towered high; its height was noticeable among the branches, in the lushness of its abundance.
  • Ezek 21:25-27 : 25 Mark out a road for the sword to come against Rabbah of the Ammonites and against Judah, into fortified Jerusalem. 26 For the king of Babylon stands at the fork in the road, at the head of the two ways, to seek omens. He shakes arrows, consults idols, and looks at the liver. 27 In his right hand is the decision for Jerusalem: to set up battering rams, to open the mouth in slaughter, to raise the battle cry, to build siege ramps, to erect siege walls.
  • Hos 3:4 : 4 For the children of Israel will live many days without a king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or household idols.
  • Hos 10:3 : 3 Now they will say, 'We have no king, for we did not fear the LORD. And as for the king, what could he do for us?
  • Amos 9:11 : 11 On that day, I will raise up the fallen booth of David. I will repair its breaches and restore its ruins, and I will rebuild it as it was in days of old.
  • Luke 19:41 : 41 As he approached and saw the city, he wept over it.
  • John 19:15 : 15 But they shouted, "Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your king?" The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar."
  • Rom 9:2-4 : 2 I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. 3 For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my own people according to the flesh. 4 They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises.
  • 2 Chr 36:13 : 13 He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear an oath by God. He stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the LORD, the God of Israel.
  • Neh 9:37 : 37 Its abundant harvest goes to the kings You have set over us because of our sins. They rule over our bodies and our livestock as they please, and we are in great distress.
  • Ps 79:7 : 7 For they have devoured Jacob and ruined his dwelling place.
  • Ps 80:15-16 : 15 God of Hosts, return! Look down from heaven and see; take care of this vine. 16 The root your right hand has planted, the son you have raised up for yourself.
  • Isa 9:18-19 : 18 By the wrath of the LORD Almighty, the land is scorched, and the people are like fuel for the fire; no one spares his brother. 19 They carve meat on the right, but they are still hungry; they devour on the left, but they are not satisfied. Each eats the flesh of his own arm.
  • Jer 38:23 : 23 They will also bring out all your wives and your children to the Babylonians. You yourself will not escape from their hands but will be captured by the king of Babylon, and this city will be burned down."
  • Jer 52:3 : 3 This happened because of the LORD's anger toward Jerusalem and Judah, until He finally cast them out of His presence. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
  • Lam 4:20 : 20 The breath of our nostrils, the LORD’s anointed, was captured in their traps, of whom we said, 'Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.'
  • Ezek 15:4 : 4 Look, it is put into the fire for fuel. The fire consumes both ends of it, and its middle is charred. Is it useful for anything?
  • Ezek 17:18-20 : 18 He despised the oath by breaking the covenant. Though he gave his hand in pledge, he did all these things. He will not escape! 19 Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘As surely as I live, My oath which he despised and My covenant which he broke, I will bring upon his own head. 20 I will spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon and execute judgment upon him there for the unfaithfulness he committed against Me.
  • Gen 49:10 : 10 'The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he to whom it belongs shall come, and the obedience of the peoples shall be his.'
  • Judg 9:15 : 15 The bramble said to the trees, 'If you truly mean to anoint me as king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade. But if not, let fire come out of the bramble and consume the cedars of Lebanon.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 86%

    11 Its branches were strong, fit for rulers' scepters. It towered high; its height was noticeable among the branches, in the lushness of its abundance.

    12 But it was uprooted in fury, cast to the ground. The east wind dried out its fruit. Its strong branches were broken off and dried up, consumed by fire.

    13 Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.

  • Isa 27:10-11
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    10 The fortified city is desolate, a desert place, abandoned and forsaken like the wilderness. There, calves will graze, lie down, and strip its branches bare.

    11 When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and light them on fire. For this is a people without understanding; therefore, their Maker will not have compassion on them, and their Creator will not show them favor.

  • Joel 1:7-8
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    7 It has laid waste my vine and ruined my fig tree. It has stripped off their bark and thrown it away; their branches are made white.

    8 Mourn like a young woman dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.

  • 12 Foreigners, the most ruthless of nations, cut it down and abandoned it. Its branches fell on the mountains and in all the valleys; its boughs were broken in all the ravines of the earth, and all the nations of the earth left its shade.

  • Ps 80:11-12
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    11 The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches.

    12 It sent out its branches to the sea and its shoots to the River.

  • Ezek 15:5-6
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    5 Even when it was whole, it could not be made into anything useful. How much less can it be used after the fire has consumed it and it is charred!

    6 Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: As the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so have I given the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

  • 9 The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and withers. Sharon has become like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.

  • 12 The vine is dried up, and the fig tree withers; the pomegranate, the palm, and the apple tree—all the trees of the field are dried up. Indeed, joy has withered away from the people.

  • 9 In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places of the wooded heights and hilltops that were abandoned because of the Israelites, and there will be desolation.

  • 16 His roots below will dry up, and his branches above will wither.

  • 16 The LORD once called you a thriving olive tree, beautiful with luscious fruit. But with the sound of a great uproar, he has set it on fire, and its branches are broken.

  • Zech 11:1-2
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    1 Open your gates, O Lebanon, so that fire may consume your cedars.

    2 Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen, because the majestic trees are destroyed! Wail, oaks of Bashan, for the dense forest has come down!

  • 18 By the wrath of the LORD Almighty, the land is scorched, and the people are like fuel for the fire; no one spares his brother.

  • 19 To you, Lord, I call, for fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and flames have burned all the trees of the field.

  • 18 The glory of his forest and his fruitful fields will be consumed, both soul and body. It will be as when a sick man wastes away.

  • 5 For before the harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape, the branches will be cut with pruning knives, and the spreading branches will be removed and discarded.

  • 9 Say, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: Will it thrive? Will it not be uprooted and its fruit stripped so that it withers? All its new growth will wither. It will not take a great effort or many people to pull it out by its roots.

  • 12 Now I will uncover her shame in the sight of her lovers; no one will deliver her out of my hand.

  • 16 The root your right hand has planted, the son you have raised up for yourself.

  • 14 I will punish you according to the fruit of your deeds, declares the LORD. I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it will consume everything around her.

  • Isa 16:8-9
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    8 The fields of Heshbon languish, as does the vine of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations have struck its choice vines, which reached as far as Jazer, wandered into the wilderness, and spread their shoots abroad, crossing the sea.

    9 Therefore, I weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah. I drench you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh, for over your summer fruits and your harvest, shouts of joy have fallen silent.

  • 13 I will take away their harvest, declares the LORD. There will be no grapes on the vine, no figs on the tree, and even the leaves will wither. What I have given them will be taken from them.

  • 26 The city gates will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.

  • 17 Though the fig tree does not blossom and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and there are no cattle in the stalls,

  • 30 For you will be like a terebinth whose leaves wither, and like a garden without water.

  • 7 I will send destroyers against you, each with his weapons. They will cut down your choice cedars and throw them into the fire.

  • 19 These double calamities have come upon you—destruction and devastation, famine and sword. Who will console you?

  • 11 Violence has arisen as the rod of wickedness. None of the people, none of their wealth, and none of their prominence will remain.

  • 10 I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair of jackals, and I will make the towns of Judah desolate, without inhabitants.

  • 12 Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines.

  • 14 This decision is by the decree of the watchers and the sentence by the command of the holy ones, in order that the living may know that the Most High is sovereign over the kingdoms of men, and He gives them to whomever He will and sets the lowliest of men over them.

  • 24 Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes stubble and as dry grass sinks in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust. For they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel.

  • 17 The seeds shrivel beneath their clods, the storehouses are desolate, the granaries are broken down, for the grain has dried up.

  • 17 Mourn for her, all you who surround her, and all who know her name; say, 'How the mighty rod of strength and the glorious staff is broken!'

  • 14 This happened so that no trees beside the abundant waters may grow tall enough to reach the clouds, nor lift their tops among the thick branches, and no trees that drink water will stand before them in their height. For they have all been consigned to death, to the lower earth, among the sons of men, with those who go down to the pit.

  • 6 I will make it a wasteland; it will neither be pruned nor hoed, and briers and thorns will grow there. I will also command the clouds not to rain on it.

  • 9 Her gates have sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and princes are among the nations, and there is no law. Even her prophets receive no vision from the LORD.

  • 6 A sword will whirl through their cities; it will destroy their gates and consume them because of their plans.

  • 12 The peoples will be burned as if to lime, like cut thorns set ablaze in the fire.

  • 9 The mother of seven has grown weak and faint; she has breathed her last. Her sun has set while it was still day; she has been disgraced and humiliated. And the remnant of them I will deliver to the sword in the presence of their enemies,' declares the LORD.

  • 17 In all the vineyards there will be wailing, for I will pass through your midst—this is what the Lord has declared.

  • 1 A shoot will come forth from the trunk of Jesse, and a branch from his roots will bear fruit.