Ezekiel 19:5–7

When she saw that she waited in vain,

that her hope was lost,

she took another of her cubs

and made him a young lion.

He prowled among the lions;

he became a young lion,

and he learned to catch prey;

he devoured men,

and seized their widows.

He laid waste their cities,

and the land was appalled and all who were in it

at the sound of his roaring.

“ ‘When she saw her hope unfulfilled,

her expectation gone,

she took another of her cubs

and made him a strong lion.

He prowled among the lions,

for he was now a strong lion.

He learned to tear the prey

and he became a man-eater.

He broke down their strongholds

and devastated their towns.

The land and all who were in it

were terrified by his roaring.

When she saw that she waited in vain,

that her hope was lost,

she took another of her cubs

and made him a young lion.

He prowled among the lions,

and he became a young lion.

After he learned to tear prey,

he devoured people.

He devastated their strongholds

and destroyed their cities.

The land and everything in it shuddered

at the sound of his roaring.

“When the lioness saw

that her hopes for him were gone,

she took another of her cubs

and taught him to be a strong young lion.

He prowled among the other lions

and stood out among them in his strength.

He learned to hunt and devour prey,

and he, too, became a man-eater.

He demolished fortresses

and destroyed their towns and cities.

Their farms were desolated,

and their crops were destroyed.

The land and its people trembled in fear

when they heard him roar.

And she saw that she was waiting in vain;

her hope was destroyed,

and she took one from her cubs,

and she made him a fierce lion.

And he walked about in the midst of lions;

he became a fierce lion,

and he learned to tear prey;

he ate humans.

And he knew their widows,

and he devastated their cities,

and the land was appalled, and everyone in it

at the sound of his roar.

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. And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men. And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.