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Read Full Chapter (Ezekiel 19) Ezekiel 19:5-7 KJV
"Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion. And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men. And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring."
Ezekiel 19:5-7 in Context (Verses 2–10 KJV)
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And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
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And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
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The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.
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Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.
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And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.
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And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.**
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Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.
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And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.*
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¶ Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.*