Ezekiel 19:1–9
1“Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,↗
2and say, ‘What was your mother? A lioness. She couched among lions, in the middle of the young lions she nourished her cubs.↗
3She brought up one of her cubs. He became a young lion. He learned to catch the prey. He devoured men.↗
4The nations also heard of him. He was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.↗
5“‘Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her cubs, and made him a young lion.↗
6He went up and down among the lions. He became a young lion. He learned to catch the prey. He devoured men.↗
7He knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities. The land was desolate with its fullness, because of the noise of his roaring.↗
8Then the nations attacked him on every side from the provinces. They spread their net over him. He was taken in their pit.↗
9They put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon. They brought him into strongholds, so that his voice should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel.↗
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