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Now when she saw as she had waited
    that her hope was lost,
then she took another of her whelps
    and made him a young lion.
He went up and down among the lions;
    he became a young lion,
and learned to catch the prey,
    and devoured men.
He destroyed their fortified palaces,
    and he laid waste their cities;
and the land and its fullness
    were appalled by the noise of his roaring.

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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