Ezekiel 19:5 "'When she saw her hope unfulfilled, her expectation gone, she took another of her cubs and made him a strong lion.

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New International Version
"'When she saw her hope unfulfilled, her expectation gone, she took another of her cubs and made him a strong lion.

English Standard Version
When she saw that she waited in vain, that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.

New American Standard Bible
When she saw, as she waited, That her hope was lost, She took another of her cubs And made him a young lion.

King James Bible
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
When she saw that she waited in vain, that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.

International Standard Version
When she learned that her plans had been frustrated and that her hopes were dashed, she took another of her cubs and turned him into a fierce lion.

American Standard Version
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But she seeing herself weakened, and that her hope was lost, took one of her young lions, and set him up for a lion.

Darby Bible Translation
And when she saw that she had waited and her hope was lost, she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.

Young's Literal Translation
And she seeth, that stayed -- perished hath her hope, And she taketh one of her whelps, A young lion she hath made it.

Cross References

Genesis 49:9
Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, you are gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?

2 Samuel 17:8
For, said Hushai, you know your father and his men, that they be mighty men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and your father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.

Ezekiel 19:4
The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains to the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 19:6
And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

19:1-9 Ezekiel is to compare the kingdom of Judah to a lioness. He must compare the kings of Judah to a lion's whelps; they were cruel and oppressive to their own subjects. The righteousness of God is to be acknowledged, when those who have terrified and enslaved others, are themselves terrified and enslaved. When professors of religion form connexions with ungodly persons, their children usually grow up following after the maxims and fashions of a wicked world. Advancement to authority discovers the ambition and selfishness of men's hearts; and those who spend their lives in mischief, generally end them by violence.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

5. saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost—that is, that her long-waited-for hope was disappointed, Jehoahaz not being restored to her from Egypt.

she took another of her whelps—Jehoiakim, brother of Jehoahaz, who was placed on the throne by Pharaoh (2Ki 23:34), according to the wish of Judah.