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Ezekiel 19:3 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" She brought up one of her cubs. He became a young lion. He learned to catch the prey. He devoured men. "
Ezekiel 19:3
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1 “Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
2 and say, ‘What was your mother? A lioness. She couched among lions, in the middle of the young lions she nourished her cubs.
3 She brought up one of her cubs. He became a young lion. He learned to catch the prey. He devoured men.
4 The nations also heard of him. He was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
5 “‘Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her cubs, and made him a young lion.
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Ezekiel 19:1
"“Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,"
Ezekiel 19:2
"and say, ‘What was your mother? A lioness. She couched among lions, in the middle of the young lions she nourished her cubs."
Ezekiel 19:4
"The nations also heard of him. He was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt."
Ezekiel 19:5
"“‘Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her cubs, and made him a young lion."
Ezekiel 19:6
"He went up and down among the lions. He became a young lion. He learned to catch the prey. He devoured men."
Ezekiel 19:7
"He knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities. The land was desolate with its fullness, because of the noise of his roaring."
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