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“‘Now when she saw that she had waited,
    and her hope was lost,
then she took another of her cubs,
    and made him a young lion.
He went up and down among the lions.
    He became a young lion.
He learned to catch the prey.
    He devoured men.
He knew their palaces,
    and laid waste their cities.
The land was desolate,
    with its fullness,
    because of the noise of his roaring.
Then the nations attacked him on every side from the provinces.
    They spread their net over him.
    He was taken in their pit.
They put him in a cage with hooks,
    and brought him to the king of Babylon.
They brought him into strongholds,
    so that his voice should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel.

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When she saw that she waited in vain,
that her hope was lost,
she took another of her cubs
and made him a young lion.
He prowled among the lions,(A)
and he became a young lion.
After he learned to tear prey,
he devoured people.
He devastated their strongholds[a]
and destroyed their cities.
The land and everything in it shuddered
at the sound of his roaring.
Then the nations from the surrounding provinces
set out against him.(B)
They spread their net over him;
he was caught in their pit.
They put a wooden yoke on him[b] with hooks(C)
and led him away to the king of Babylon.
They brought him into the fortresses
so his roar could no longer be heard
on the mountains of Israel.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 19:7 Tg, Aq; MT reads knew their widows
  2. 19:9 Or put him in a cage