Ezekiel 19:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² and say: What a lioness was your mother among lions! She lay down among young lions, rearing her cubs.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² and say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² 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)

² 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

² 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

² 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

² And say: Why did thy mother the lioness lie down among the lions and bring up her whelps in the midst of young lions?

Ezekiel 19:2 Cross References

Job 4:11

The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered.

Psalm 58:6

O God, break the teeth in their mouths; tear out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!

Isaiah 5:29

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.

Ezekiel 19:1

As for you, raise up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

Ezekiel 19:3

She raised up one of her cubs; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey; he devoured humans.

Ezekiel 32:2

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.

Zechariah 11:3

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!

Deuteronomy 33:22

And of Dan he said, “Dan is a lion’s whelp that leaps forth from Bashan.”