Ezekiel 19:2

and say: ‘What was your mother? A lioness among the lions! She lay down among the young lions; she reared her cubs.

Berean Standard Bible
Other translations

King James Version

And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.

World English Bible

and say, ‘What was your mother? A lioness. She couched among lions, in the middle of the young lions she nourished her cubs.

American Standard Version

and say, What was thy mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her whelps.

Geneva Bible 1599

And say, Wherefore lay thy mother as a lyonesse among the lyons? she nourished her yong ones among the lyons whelps,

Darby Translation

and say, What was thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps in the midst of the young lions.

Young's Literal Translation

and thou hast said: What [is] thy mother? — a lioness, Among lions she hath crouched down, In the midst of young lions she hath multiplied her whelps.

Bible in Basic English

What was your mother? Like a she-lion among lions, stretched out among the young lions she gave food to her little ones.

In context

1“As for you, take up a lament for the princes of Israel

3She brought up one of her cubs, and he became a young lion. After learning to tear his prey, he devoured men.

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