Ezekiel 19:2
Good News Translation
What a lioness your mother was! She raised her cubs among the fierce male lions.

New Revised Standard Version
and say: What a lioness was your mother among lions! She lay down among young lions, rearing her cubs.

Contemporary English Version
Your mother was a brave lioness who raised her cubs among lions.

New American Bible
and say: What a lioness was your mother, a lion among lions! She made her lair among young lions, to raise her cubs;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And say: Why did thy mother the lioness lie down among the lions, and bring up her whelps in the midst of young lions?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And say: Why did thy mother the lioness lie down among the lions, and bring up her whelps in the midst of young lions?

Nahum 2:11,12 Where is now the dwelling of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, to which the lion went, to enter in thither, the young lion, and there was none to make them afraid? . . .

Zephaniah 3:1-4 Woe to the provoking and redeemed city, the dove. . . .

young lions

Job 4:11 The tiger hath perished for want of prey, and the young lions are scattered abroad.

Psalm 58:6 God shall break in pieces their teeth in their mouth: the Lord shall break the grinders of the lions.

Isaiah 5:29 Their roaring like that of a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea they shall roar, and take hold of the prey, and they shall keep fast hold of it, and there shall be none to deliver it.

Isaiah 11:6-9 The wolf shall dwell with the lamb: and the leopard shall lie down with the kid: the calf and the lion, and the sheep shall abide together, and a little child shall lead them. . . .

Zechariah 11:3 The voice of the howling of the shepherds, because their glory is laid waste: the voice of the roaring of the lions, because the pride of the Jordan is spoiled.

Context
A Lament for the Princes of Israel
1Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, 2And say: Why did thy mother the lioness lie down among the lions, and bring up her whelps in the midst of young lions?3And she brought out one of her whelps, and he became a lion: and he learned to catch the prey, and to devour men.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 33:22
To Dan also he said: Dan is a young lion, he shall flow plentifully from Basan.

Ezekiel 19:1
Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

Ezekiel 19:3
And she brought out one of her whelps, and he became a lion: and he learned to catch the prey, and to devour men.

Ezekiel 32:2
Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharao the king of Egypt, and say to him: Thou art like the lion of the nations, and the dragon that is in the sea: and thou didst push with the horn in thy rivers, and didst trouble the waters with thy feet, and didst trample upon their streams.

Ezekiel 19:1
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