“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.”
Ezekiel 19:5 (KJV) |
Ezekiel 19:5
From Ezekiel 19, in the Book of Ezekiel (Old Testament).
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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.
The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.
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.