Ezekiel 19:2-9 ▼

2 and say, ‘What was your mother [Jerusalem and Judah]? A lioness among lions! She lay down among young lions, She reared her cubs.

3 ‘When she [the royal mother-city] brought up [Jehoahaz] one of her cubs, He became a [young] lion, And he learned to catch and tear the prey; He devoured men.

4 ‘The nations heard about him; He was captured in their pit, And they brought him with hooks To the land of Egypt.

5 ‘When she saw, as she waited, That her hope was lost, She took another of her cubs And made him a young lion.

6 ‘And he moved among the lions; He became a young lion, He learned to tear the prey; He devoured men.

7 ‘He destroyed their palaces And he flattened their cities; And the land and all who were in it were appalled By the sound of his roaring.

8 ‘Then the nations set against him (the king) On every side from the provinces, And they spread their net over him; He was captured in their pit.

9 ‘They put him in a cage with hooks and chains And brought him to the king of Babylon; They brought him in hunting nets So that his voice would be heard no more On the mountains of Israel.