Ezekiel 19:1-6

1 Sing the blues over the princes of Israel.
2 Say: What a lioness was your mother among lions! She crouched in a pride of young lions. Her cubs grew large.
3 She reared one of her cubs to maturity, a robust young lion. He learned to hunt. He ate men.
4 Nations sounded the alarm. He was caught in a trap. They took him with hooks and dragged him to Egypt.
5 When the lioness saw she was luckless, that her hope for that cub was gone, She took her other cub and made him a strong young lion.
6 He prowled with the lions, a robust young lion. He learned to hunt. He ate men.
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