Ezekiel 19:7 — Meaning and Application

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. {their desolate...: or, their widows} {the fulness...: or, all it containeth}

Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.

And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel. {in chains: or, in hooks}