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Ezekiel 19:1-4
The first young lion
A Lament for Israel’s Princes · Ezekiel 19
Story guide: The lioness and cub begin the lament over Israel’s princes; the pit and Egyptian road picture the young lion’s capture.
Open this scene in the reader →1And you, raise a lamentation over the princes of Israel.
2and say, ‘What was your mother? A lioness. Among lions she lay down; in the midst of young lions she reared her cubs.’
3She brought up one of her cubs; he became a young lion, and he learned to tear prey; he devoured people.
4The nations heard of him; he was caught in their pit, and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
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