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Then she saw, as she waited,
That her hope was lost,
So she took [a]another of her cubs
And made him a young lion.
And he (A)walked about among the lions;
He became a young lion;
He learned to tear his prey;
He devoured men.
He [b]knew how to destroy their [c]fortified towers
And laid waste their cities;
And the land was in desolation, as well as its fullness
Because of the sound of his roaring.
Then (B)nations put themselves against him
All around from their provinces,
And they spread their net over him;
He was captured in their pit.
(C)They put him in a cage with hooks
And (D)brought him to the king of Babylon;
They brought him in hunting nets
So that his voice would be heard no more
On the mountains of Israel.

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  1. Ezekiel 19:5 Lit one
  2. Ezekiel 19:7 Targum destroy
  3. Ezekiel 19:7 Or widows

When she saw that she was waiting in vain,
    that her hope was lost,
        she took another of her cubs
        and made him a young lion.
He prowled around among the lions,
    because he too had become a young lion.
    He learned to tear prey.
    He even ate humans.
He knew how many widows he made[a]
        as he ravaged their cities.
    The land and everyone in it were stunned
        by the noise of his roaring.
Nations set upon him from the surrounding provinces.
    They spread their net over him,
    and he was trapped in their pit.
With hooks they put him in a wooden cage,[b]
    and they brought him[c] to the king of Babylon.
    They brought him into prison
        so that his roar would no longer be heard
        on the mountains of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 19:7 The translation follows the Hebrew. Other ancient versions read he devastated their strongholds, which seems to fit the parallelism with ravaging cities.
  2. Ezekiel 19:9 Or a collar
  3. Ezekiel 19:9 King Jehoiachin of Judah