Verse 2

Ezekiel 19:2

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

2 And say: Why did thy mother the lioness lie down among the lions, and bring up her whelps in the midst of young lions?

Original Language Text

hebrew

וְ/אָמַרְתָּ֗ מָ֤ה אִמְּ/ךָ֙ לְבִיָּ֔א בֵּ֥ין אֲרָי֖וֹת רָבָ֑צָה בְּ/ת֥וֹךְ כְּפִרִ֖ים רִבְּתָ֥ה גוּרֶֽי/הָ

English Translation

And you shall say, "What is your mother? A lioness lying among young lions, she raised her cubs."

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Chapter 19 Context

1 Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, Focus ↗

2 And say: Why did thy mother the lioness lie down among the lions, and bring up her whelps in the mid...

3 And she brought out one of her whelps, and he became a lion: and he learned to catch the prey, and t... Focus ↗

4 And the nations heard of him, and took him, but not without receiving wounds: and they brought him i... Focus ↗

5 But she seeing herself weakened, and that her hope was lost, took one of her young lions, and set hi... Focus ↗

6 And he went up and down among the lions, and became a lion: and he learned to catch the prey, and to... Focus ↗

7 He learned to make widows, and to lay waste their cities: and the land became desolate, and the fuln... Focus ↗

8 And the nations Game together against him on every side out of the provinces, and they spread their... Focus ↗

9 And they put him into a cage, they brought him in chains to the king of Babylon: and they cast him i... Focus ↗

10 Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood planted by the water: her fruit and her branches have grown o... Focus ↗

11 And she hath strong rods to make sceptres for them that bear rule, and her stature was exalted among... Focus ↗

12 But she was plucked up in wrath, and cast on the ground, and the burning wind dried up her fruit: he... Focus ↗

13 And now she is transplanted into the desert, in a land not passable, and dry. Focus ↗

14 And a fire is gone out from a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit: so that she now ha... Focus ↗

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