Ezekiel 19:3
“And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.”
Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.
Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.
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“And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.”
“And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.”
“Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.”
“And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.”
“Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.”