Ezekiel 19:2
and say, Why is thy mother become a whelp in the midst of lions? in the midst of lions she has multiplied her whelps.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
1Moreover do thou take up a lamentation for the prince of Israel,
3And one of her whelps sprang forth; he became a lion, and learned to take prey, he devoured men.
Cross References
Job 4:11The old lion has perished for want of food, and the lions' whelps have forsaken one another.
Isaiah 5:29They rage as lions, and draw nigh as a lion's whelps: and he shall seize, and roar as a wild beast, and he shall cast them forth, and there shall be none to deliver them.
Nahum 2:11There is thrusting forth, and shaking, and tumult, and heart-breaking, and loosing of knees, and pangs on all loins; and the faces of all are as the blackening of a pot.
Zechariah 11:3There is a voice of the shepherds mourning; for their greatness is + 11:3 Gr. distressed.brought low: a voice of roaring lions; for the + 11:3 Or, roaring.pride of Jordan is brought down.
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 19:2-10
The Fall of the Royal Family; Fall of Jehoahaz and Jehoiakim. ( b. c. 593.) 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… Read the whole commentary →