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His mother waited for him to return home.
He did not come and she stopped hoping for him.
She helped another of her sons to become a strong young lion.
He grew to be strong among the other lions.
He learned to catch wild animals and to eat them.
He also learned to eat people.
He attacked their strong buildings and he destroyed their cities.
When he roared, the noise frightened everyone in the land.

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“‘When she saw her hope unfulfilled,
    her expectation gone,
she took another of her cubs(A)
    and made him a strong lion.(B)
He prowled among the lions,
    for he was now a strong lion.
He learned to tear the prey
    and he became a man-eater.(C)
He broke down[a] their strongholds
    and devastated(D) their towns.
The land and all who were in it
    were terrified by his roaring.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 19:7 Targum (see Septuagint); Hebrew He knew