Ezekiel 19:2-6

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‘^(a)What was your mother?
A lioness among lions!
She lay down among young lions,
She reared her cubs.

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‘When she brought up one of her cubs,
He became a lion,
And he learned to tear his prey;
He devoured men.

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‘Then nations heard about him;
He was captured in their pit,
And they ^(A)brought him with hooks
To the land of Egypt.

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‘When she saw, as she waited,
That her hope was lost,
She took ^(b)another of her cubs
And made him a young lion.

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‘And he ^(B)walked about among the lions;
He became a young lion,
He learned to tear his prey;
He devoured men.

a. Ezekiel 19:2: ['Or ', Why did your mother, a lioness, lie down among lions; among young lions rear her cubs?]

b. Ezekiel 19:5: ['Lit ', one]