Ezekiel 19:1–9

¹And you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

²and say:

What a lioness was your mother

among lions!

She couched in the midst of young lions,

rearing her whelps.

³And she brought up one of her whelps;

he became a young lion,

and he learned to catch prey;

he devoured men.

⁴The nations sounded an alarm against him;

he was taken in their pit;

and they brought him with hooks

to the land of Egypt.

⁵When she saw that she was baffled,

that her hope was lost,

she took another of her whelps

and made him a young lion.

⁶He prowled among the lions;

he became a young lion,

and he learned to catch prey;

he devoured men.

⁷And he ravaged their strongholds,

and laid waste their cities;

and the land was appalled and all who were in it

at the sound of his roaring.

⁸Then the nations set against him

snares on every side;

they spread their net over him;

he was taken in their pit.

⁹With hooks they put him in a cage,

and brought him to the king of Babylon;

they brought him into custody,

that his voice should no more be heard

upon the mountains of Israel.