Ezekiel 19:2-7 ▼

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.

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.

6 He went up and down among the lions. He became a young lion. He learned to catch the prey. He devoured men.

7 He knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities. The land was desolate with its fullness, because of the noise of his roaring.