Ezekiel 19:5-9
The Voice
5 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.
6 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.
7 He seized their widows and left their cities in ruins.
The whole land—everything in it—was terrified when he roared.
8 Then all the nations in the surrounding provinces came together to hunt the great lion.
They set traps for him, and they caught him.
9 With hooks they pulled him into a cage
and took him to the king of Babylon.
The great lion was put in a prison
so that his roar was no longer heard in the mountains of Israel.
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