Catholic Public Domain Version
"and you shall say: Why did your mother, the lioness, recline among the male lions, and raise her little ones in the midst of young lions? "
— Ezekiel 19:2, Catholic Public Domain Version
“And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.”
“and say, What was thy mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her whelps. ”
“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 a lioness was your mother among the lions! She lay among young lions; she reared her cubs.”
“And say: Why did thy mother the lioness lie down among the lions, and bring up her whelps in the midst of young lions?”
“What was your mother? Like a she-lion among lions, stretched out among the young lions she gave food to her little ones.”
“And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.”
“And as for you, take up a lament over the leaders of Israel,
and you shall say: Why did your mother, the lioness, recline among the male lions, and raise her little ones in the midst of young lions?
And she led away one of her little ones, and he became a lion. And he learned to seize prey and to consume men.
And the Gentiles heard about him, and they seized him, but not without receiving wounds. And they led him away in chains to the land of Egypt.
Then, when she had seen that she was weakened, and that her hope had perished, she took one of her little ones, and appointed him as a lion.