Bible in Basic English
"Take up now a song of grief for the ruler of Israel, and say,"
— Ezekiel 19:1, Bible in Basic English
Take up now a song of grief for the ruler of Israel, and say,
What was your mother? Like a she-lion among lions, stretched out among the young lions she gave food to her little ones.
And one of her little ones came to growth under her care, and became a young lion, learning to go after beasts for his food; and he took men for his meat.
And the nations had news of him; he was taken in the hole they had made: and, pulling him with hooks, they took him into the land of Egypt.