Ezekiel 19:1-9

New King James Version

‘What is your mother? A lioness:
She lay down among the lions;
Among the young lions she nourished her cubs.
³ She brought up one of her cubs,
And ^(B)he became a young lion;
He learned to catch prey,
And he devoured men.
⁴ The nations also heard of him;
He was trapped in their pit,
And they brought him with chains to the land of ^(C)Egypt.

⁵ ‘When she saw that she waited, that her hope was lost,
She took ^(D)another of her cubs and made him a young lion.
^6 (E)He roved among the lions,
And ^(F)became a young lion;
He learned to catch prey;
He devoured men.
^7 [a]He knew their desolate places,
And laid waste their cities;
The land with its fullness was desolated
By the noise of his roaring.
^8 (G)Then the nations set against him from the provinces on every side,
And spread their net over him;
^(H)He was trapped in their pit.
^9 (I)They put him in a cage with ^[b]chains,
And brought him to the king of Babylon;
They brought him in nets,
That his voice should no longer be heard on ^(J)the mountains of Israel.