Ezekiel 19:1-4

Amplified Bible

‘What was your mother [Jerusalem and Judah]?
A lioness among lions!
She lay down among young lions,
She reared her cubs.
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‘When she [the royal mother-city] brought up [Jehoahaz] one of her cubs,
He became a [young] lion,
And he learned to catch and tear the prey;
He devoured men.^(A)
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‘The nations heard about him;
He was captured in their pit,
And they brought him with hooks
To the land of Egypt.^(B)