🔥WEB · Ezekiel 19:5
What does Ezekiel 19:5 mean?
"“‘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."
— Ezekiel 19:5 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
and say, ‘What was your mother? A lioness. She couched among lions, in the middle of the young lions she nourished her cubs.
She brought up one of her cubs. He became a young lion. He learned to catch the prey. He devoured men.
The nations also heard of him. He was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
“‘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.
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