Ezekiel 19:2
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
and say: ‘What was your mother? A lioness among the lions! She lay down among the young lions; she reared her cubs.
In context
1 “As for you, take up a lament for the princes of Israel
2 and say: ‘What was your mother? A lioness among the lions! She lay down among the young lions; she reared her cubs.
3 She brought up one of her cubs, and he became a young lion. After learning to tear his prey, he devoured men.
4 When the nations heard of him, he was trapped in their pit. With hooks they led him away to the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 19:2 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- and say: ‘What was your mother? A lioness among the lions! She lay down among the young lions; she reared her cubs.
- KJV King James Version
- And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
- WEB 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.
- ASV 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.
- YLT 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.
- DBY 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.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And say, What is thy mother: A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.