Ezekiel 19:5-9

The Voice

⁵     When the lioness realized that her hopes for her son had vanished,
        she chose another one of her cubs and trained him to be a strong and fierce young lion.
⁶     He prowled among the other lions;
        he was now a robust young lion.
        He learned to hunt and tear into his prey; he became a man-eater.
⁷     He seized their widows and left their cities in ruins.
        The whole land—everything in it—was terrified when he roared.
⁸     Then all the nations in the surrounding provinces came together to hunt the great lion.
        They set traps for him, and they caught him.
⁹     With hooks they pulled him into a cage
        and took him to the king of Babylon.
    The great lion was put in a prison
        so that his roar was no longer heard in the mountains of Israel.