“and say: ‘What was your mother? A lioness among the lions! She lay down among the young lions; she reared her cubs.”
Ezekiel 19:2 (BSB)
Context Reading
1“As for you, take up a lament for the princes of Israel 2and say: ‘What was your mother? A lioness among the lions! She lay down among the young lions; she reared her cubs. 3She brought up one of her cubs, and he became a young lion. After learning to tear his prey, he devoured men. 4When the nations heard of him, he was trapped in their pit. With hooks they led him away to the land of Egypt.