and say,
‘What was your mother?
A lioness.
She couched among lions,
in the middle of the young lions she nourished her cubs.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Ezekiel 19:2 in context
Ezekiel 19:1–5
1
“Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
2
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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.
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