Ezekiel 19:2
and say, Why is your mother become a whelp in the midst of lions? in the midst of lions she has multiplied her whelps.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
1Moreover do you 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 lack of food, and the lions' whelps have forsaken one another.
Isaiah 5:29They rage as lions, and draw near 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 2:11Where is the dwelling-place of the lions, and the pasture that belonged to the whelps? where did the lion go, that the lion's whelp should enter in there, and there was none to scare him away?
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 →