Ezekiel 19:2-9 ▼

2 And say: wherfore lay thy mother that lionesse among the lions? she norished her young ones among the lions whelpes.

3 One of her whelpes she brought vp, and it be came a lion, it learned to catche the pray and to deuour folke.

4 The heathen hearde of hym, and caught hym in their snare, and brought hym in hookes vnto the lande of Egypt.

5 Nowe when she sawe that she had wayted and her hope was lost, she toke another of her whelpes and made a lion of hym.

6 Which went among the lions, and became a fearce lion, learned to catche the pray, and to deuour folke,

7 He destroyed their palaces and made their cities waste, insomuch that the whole lande and euery thyng therin were vtterly desolate through the voyce of his roaryng.

8 Then set the heathen together on euery side of the countreis agaynst him, layde their nettes for him, and toke him in their pit.

9 So they put him in prison in chaynes, and brought him to the kyng of Babylon: they put him in holdes, that his voyce shoulde no more be hearde vpon the mountaynes of Israel.