Ezekiel 19:2-9 ▼

2 and say: |'What a lioness was your mother among the lions! She lay among young lions; she reared her cubs.

3 She reared one of her cubs; he became a young lion. He learned to tear prey; he devoured people.

4 The nations heard about him; he was trapped in their pit. They brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.

5 |'When she realized that she waited in vain, her hope was lost. She took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.

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

7 He broke down their strongholds and devastated their cities. The land and everything in it was frightened at the sound of his roaring.

8 The nations--the surrounding regions--attacked him. They threw their net over him; he was caught in their pit.

9 They put him in a collar with hooks; they brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him to prison so that his voice would not be heard any longer on the mountains of Israel.