Ezekiel 19:1-4

New American Standard Bible

‘^[a]What was your mother?
A lioness among lions!
She lay down among young lions,
She raised her cubs.
³ When she brought up one of her cubs,
^(C)He became a young lion,
And he learned to tear his prey;
He devoured people.
⁴ Then nations heard about him;
He was caught in their trap,
And they ^(D)brought him with hooks
To the land of Egypt.