Ezekiel 19:2-9 ▼

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

3 So she brought up one of her cubs; He became a lion, And he learned to tear his prey; He devoured men.

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

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

6 And he walked about among the lions; He became a young lion; He learned to tear his prey; He devoured men.

7 He knew how to destroy their fortified towers And laid waste their cities; And the land was in desolation, as well as its fullness Because of the sound of his roaring.

8 Then nations put themselves against him All around from their provinces, And they spread their net over him; He was captured in their pit.

9 They put him in a cage with hooks 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.