Bible in Basic English
"Now when she saw that her hope was made foolish and gone, she took another of her little ones and made him into a young lion."
— Ezekiel 19:5, Bible in Basic English
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.
Now when she saw that her hope was made foolish and gone, she took another of her little ones and made him into a young lion.
And he went up and down among the lions and became a young lion, learning to go after beasts for his food; and he took men for his meat.
And he sent destruction on their widows and made waste their towns; and the land and everything in it became waste because of the loud sound of his voice.
Then the nations came against him from the kingdoms round about: their net was stretched over him and he was taken in the hole they had made.