Ezekiel 19:5-9

GOD’S WORD Translation

⁵The lioness waited until she saw that there was no more hope.
Then she took another one of her cubs
and raised him into a young lion.

⁶He became a young lion, and he prowled among the lions.
He learned to tear apart the animals he hunted.
He ate people.
⁷He destroyed fortresses
and turned cities into wastelands.
The land and everyone living in it
were terrified by the sound of his roar.
⁸The nations from every region came together against him.
They spread their net over him
and caught him in their pit.
⁹With hooks they put him in a cage
and brought him to the king of Babylon.
They put him in prison
so that his roar wouldn’t be heard anymore
on the mountains of Israel.