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Now when she saw that in vain she had waited, and her tikvah (hope) was lost, then she took another of her cubs, and made him a strong lion.

And he went up and down among the arayot (lions), he became a strong lion, and learned to tear the teref, and devoured adam.

And he destroyed their strongholds, and he laid waste their towns; and eretz and the fulness thereof became desolate, through the sound of his roaring.

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“‘When she saw her hope unfulfilled,
    her expectation gone,
she took another of her cubs(A)
    and made him a strong lion.(B)
He prowled among the lions,
    for he was now a strong lion.
He learned to tear the prey
    and he became a man-eater.(C)
He broke down[a] their strongholds
    and devastated(D) their towns.
The land and all who were in it
    were terrified by his roaring.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 19:7 Targum (see Septuagint); Hebrew He knew