And say, Wherefore lay thy [a]mother as a lioness among the lions? she nourished her young ones among the lion’s whelps,

And she brought up one of her whelps, and it became a lion, and it learned to catch the prey, and it devoured men.

The [b]nations also heard of him, and he was taken in their nets, and they brought him in chains unto the land of Egypt.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 19:2 To wit, Jehoahaz’s mother, or Jerusalem.
  2. Ezekiel 19:4 By Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt, 2 Kings 23:33.

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