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Ezekiel 19:2
Ezekiel 19:2 is verse 2 of Ezekiel chapter 19, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
and say: ‘What was your mother? A lioness among the lions! She lay down among the young lions; she reared her cubs.
King James Version
And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
World English Bible
and say, ‘What was your mother? A lioness. She couched among lions, in the middle of the young lions she nourished her cubs.
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Ezekiel 19:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible
1 “As for you, take up a lament for the princes of Israel
2 and say: ‘What was your mother? A lioness among the lions! She lay down among the young lions; she reared her cubs.
3 She brought up one of her cubs, and he became a young lion. After learning to tear his prey, he devoured men.
4 When the nations heard of him, he was trapped in their pit. With hooks they led him away to the land of Egypt.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Nahum 2:11Where is the lions’ lair or the feeding ground of the young lions, where the lion and lioness prowled with their cubs, with nothing to frighten them away?
Nahum 2:12The lion mauled enough for its cubs and strangled prey for the lioness. It filled its dens with the kill, and its lairs with mauled prey.
Zephaniah 3:1Woe to the city of oppressors, rebellious and defiled!
Zephaniah 3:2She heeded no voice; she accepted no correction. She does not trust in the LORD; she has not drawn near to her God.
Zephaniah 3:3Her princes are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves, leaving nothing for the morning.
Zephaniah 3:4Her prophets are reckless, faithless men. Her priests profane the sanctuary; they do violence to the law.
Job 4:11The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
Psalms 58:6O God, shatter their teeth in their mouths; O LORD, tear out the fangs of the lions.
Isaiah 5:29Their roaring is like that of a lion; they roar like young lions. They growl and seize their prey; they carry it away from deliverance.
Isaiah 11:6The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the goat; the calf and young lion and fatling will be together, and a little child will lead them.
Isaiah 11:7The cow will graze with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox.
Isaiah 11:8The infant will play by the cobra’s den, and the toddler will reach into the viper’s nest.
Isaiah 11:9They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the sea is full of water.
Zechariah 11:3Listen to the wailing of the shepherds, for their glory is in ruins. Listen to the roaring of the young lions, for the thickets of the Jordan are destroyed.