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    When the lioness realized that her hopes for her son had vanished,
        she chose another one of her cubs and trained him to be a strong and fierce young lion.
    He prowled among the other lions;
        he was now a robust young lion.
        He learned to hunt and tear into his prey; he became a man-eater.
    He seized their widows and left their cities in ruins.
        The whole land—everything in it—was terrified when he roared.

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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