Ezekiel 19:2-7 ▼

2 and say: What was your mother? A lioness! She lay down among the lions; she reared her cubs among the young lions.

3 She brought up one of her cubs, and he became a young lion. After he learned to tear prey, he devoured people.

4 When the nations heard about him, he was caught in their pit. Then they led him away with hooks to the land of Egypt.

5 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.

6 He prowled among the lions, and he became a young lion. After he learned to tear prey, he devoured people.

7 He devastated their strongholds and destroyed their cities. The land and everything in it shuddered at the sound of his roaring.