VERSE STUDY • KJV

Ezekiel 19:2

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 say, What [is] thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.

and say: ‘What was your mother? A lioness among the lions! She lay down among the young lions; she reared her cubs.

and say, What was your mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her cubs.

and say, What was thy mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her whelps.

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.

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.

5 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.

HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION

Put Matthew Henry, Adam Clarke, Calvin, Wesley, Barnes, Jamieson–Fausset–Brown, Aquinas’ Catena and other public-domain sources beside the passage.