Ezekiel 19:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ When she saw that she was thwarted, that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Now when she had waited, she saw her hope was lost. Then she took another of her cubs [Jehoiachin] and made him a young lion. [II Kings 23:34; 24:1, 6.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ 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.

Common English Bible

⁵ When she realized that she waited in vain, her hope faded. So she took another of her cubs and set him up as a strong young lion.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ Then, when she had seen that she was weakened, and that her hope had perished, she took one of her little ones, and appointed him as a lion.

Ezekiel 19:5 Cross References

Ezekiel 19:3

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

Genesis 49:9

Judah is a lion’s whelp; from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He crouches down, he stretches out like a lion, like a lioness—who dares rouse him up?

2 Samuel 17:8

Hushai continued, “You know that your father and his men are warriors and that they are enraged, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Besides, your father is expert in war; he will not spend the night with the troops.

Ezekiel 19:4

The nations heard about him; he was caught in their pit, and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 19:6

He prowled among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey; he devoured people.