2 and say: ‘What was your mother? A lioness among the lions! She lay down among the young lions; she reared her cubs. 3 She brought up one of her cubs, and he became a young lion. After learning to tear his prey, he devoured men. 4 When the nations heard of him, he was trapped in their pit. With hooks they led him away to the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 19:2–4
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