“‘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.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Ezekiel 19:5 in context
Ezekiel 19:2–8
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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.
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She brought up one of her cubs.
He became a young lion.
He learned to catch the prey.
He devoured men.
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The nations also heard of him.
He was taken in their pit;
and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
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“‘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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He went up and down among the lions.
He became a young lion.
He learned to catch the prey.
He devoured men.
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He knew their palaces,
and laid waste their cities.
The land was desolate with its fullness,
because of the noise of his roaring.
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Then the nations attacked him on every side from the provinces.
They spread their net over him.
He was taken in their pit.
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