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and you must say,

‘What a lioness was your mother
    among the lions.
She lay down in the midst of young lions,
    and she reared her lion cubs.
And she raised up one from her cubs;
    he became a fierce lion,
and he learned to tear prey;
    he ate[a] humans.[b]
And nations heard about him;
    in their pit he was caught,
and they brought him with hooks
    to the land of Egypt.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 19:3 Or “devoured”
  2. Ezekiel 19:3 Hebrew “human”