Ezekiel 19:1-4 ▼

1 “Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

2 and say, ‘What was your mother? A lioness. She couched among lions, in the middle of the young lions she nourished her cubs.

3 She brought up one of her cubs. He became a young lion. He learned to catch the prey. He devoured men.

4 The nations also heard of him. He was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.