Ezekiel 19:1-4

New International Reader's Version

“ ‘You were like a mother lion to your princes.
    She lay down among the lions.
    She brought up her cubs.
³ One of them was Jehoahaz.
    He became a strong lion.
He learned to tear apart what he caught.
    And he became a man-eater.
⁴ The nations heard about him.
    They trapped him in their pit.
They put hooks in his face.
    And they led him away to Egypt.