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Ezekiel 19:2-4
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
Ezekiel 19:2-4
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
2 and say:
What a lioness was your mother
among lions!
She lay down among young lions,
rearing her cubs.
3 She raised up one of her cubs;
he became a young lion,
and he learned to catch prey;
he devoured humans.
4 The nations sounded an alarm against him;
he was caught in their pit;
and they brought him with hooks
to the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 19:2-4
English Standard Version
Ezekiel 19:2-4
English Standard Version
2 and say:
What was your mother? (A)A lioness!
Among lions she crouched;
in the midst of young lions
she reared her cubs.
3 And she brought up one of her cubs;
(B)he became a young lion,
(C)and he learned to catch prey;
he devoured men.
4 The nations heard about him;
(D)he was caught in their pit,
(E)and they brought him with hooks
to the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 19:2-4
New International Version
Ezekiel 19:2-4
New International Version
2 and say:
“‘What a lioness(A) was your mother
among the lions!
She lay down among them
and reared her cubs.(B)
3 She brought up one of her cubs,
and he became a strong lion.
He learned to tear the prey
and he became a man-eater.
4 The nations heard about him,
and he was trapped in their pit.
They led him with hooks(C)
to the land of Egypt.(D)
Ezekiel 19:2-4
King James Version
Ezekiel 19:2-4
King James Version
2 And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
3 And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
4 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.
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Ezekiel 19:2-4
New King James Version
Ezekiel 19:2-4
New King James Version
2 and say:
‘What is your mother? A lioness:
She lay down among the lions;
Among the young lions she nourished her cubs.
3 She brought up one of her cubs,
And (A)he became a young lion;
He learned to catch prey,
And he devoured men.
4 The nations also heard of him;
He was trapped in their pit,
And they brought him with chains to the land of (B)Egypt.
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