Ezekiel 19:4

Ezekiel 19:4 in other translations

Ezekiel 19:4 in context

1. 2and say,
   ‘What was your mother?
   A lioness.
   She couched among lions,
   in the middle of the young lions she nourished her cubs.
2. 3She brought up one of her cubs.
   He became a young lion.
   He learned to catch the prey.
   He devoured men.
3. 4The nations also heard of him.
   He was taken in their pit;
   and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
4. 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.
5. 6He went up and down among the lions.
   He became a young lion.
   He learned to catch the prey.
   He devoured men.