Ezekiel 19:2
King James Version (KJV)
And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
In context
1 Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
2 And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
3 And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
4 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 19:2 in every translation
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.