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He prowled around among the lions,
    because he too had become a young lion.
    He learned to tear prey.
    He even ate humans.
He knew how many widows he made[a]
        as he ravaged their cities.
    The land and everyone in it were stunned
        by the noise of his roaring.
Nations set upon him from the surrounding provinces.
    They spread their net over him,
    and he was trapped in their pit.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 19:7 The translation follows the Hebrew. Other ancient versions read he devastated their strongholds, which seems to fit the parallelism with ravaging cities.