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A Parable About Israel’s Princes

19 Now you are to take up a lament for the princes of Israel. This is what you are to say:

    What a lioness your mother was!
    She crouched among the lions.
    Among the young lions she reared her cubs.
She raised up one of her cubs.[a]
    When he became a young lion,
        he learned to tear his prey.
    He even ate humans.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 19:3 King Jehoahaz of Judah