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Ezekiel 19:2

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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.

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Ezekiel 19:2 in other translations

and say, What was thy mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her whelps.

Ezekiel 19:2 · American Standard Version

Ezekiel 19:2 in context

  1. 1“Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
  2. 2and say,
    ‘What was your mother?
    A lioness.
    She couched among lions,
    in the middle of the young lions she nourished her cubs.
  3. 3She brought up one of her cubs.
    He became a young lion.
    He learned to catch the prey.
    He devoured men.
  4. 4The nations also heard of him.
    He was taken in their pit;
    and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.