The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered.
Ezekiel 19:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 and say: What a lioness was your mother among lions! She lay down among young lions, rearing her cubs. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 and say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And say, What a lioness was your mother [Jerusalem-Judah]! She couched among lions; in the midst of young lions she nourished her cubs. American Standard Version (1901) and say, What was thy mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her whelps. Common English Bible Say: What a lioness among lionesses was your mother! She bedded down among the strong young lions and reared her cubs. Catholic Public Domain Version and you shall say: Why did your mother, the lioness, recline among the male lions, and raise her little ones in the midst of young lions? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And say: Why did thy mother the lioness lie down among the lions and bring up her whelps in the midst of young lions? |
The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered.
O God, break the teeth in their mouths; tear out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!
Their roaring is like a lion; like young lions they roar; they growl and seize their prey; they carry it off, and no one can rescue.
She raised up one of her cubs; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey; he devoured humans.
Mortal, raise a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: You consider yourself a lion among the nations, but you are like a dragon in the seas; you thrash about in your streams, trouble the water with your feet, and foul your streams.
Listen, the wail of the shepherds, for their glory is despoiled! Listen, the roar of the lions, for the thickets of the Jordan are destroyed!
And of Dan he said, “Dan is a lion’s whelp that leaps forth from Bashan.”