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And she saw[a] that she was waiting in vain;
    her hope was destroyed,
and she took one from her cubs,
    and she made him a fierce lion.
And he walked about in the midst of lions;
    he became a fierce lion,
and he learned to tear prey;
    he ate[b] humans.[c]
And he knew their widows,[d]
    and he devastated their cities,
and the land was appalled, and everyone in it[e]
    at the sound of his roar.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 19:5 Or “realized”
  2. Ezekiel 19:6 Or “devoured”
  3. Ezekiel 19:6 Hebrew “human”
  4. Ezekiel 19:7 Or “ravished/raped”; or “he ravaged their strongholds”
  5. Ezekiel 19:7 Literally “its fullness”