Ezekiel 19:2

King James Version 1611 (Original)

And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.

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  • Job 4:11 : 11 The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.
  • Ps 58:6 : 6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
  • Isa 5:29 : 29 Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.
  • Isa 11:6-9 : 6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. 7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. 8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den. 9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
  • Nah 2:11-12 : 11 Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid? 12 The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.
  • Zeph 3:1-4 : 1 Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city! 2 She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God. 3 Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow. 4 Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
  • Zech 11:3 : 3 There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.

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  • Ezek 19:3-7
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    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 waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.

    6 And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.

    7 And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.

  • Nah 2:11-13
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    79%

    11 Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid?

    12 The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.

    13 Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.

  • Ezek 19:1
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    1 Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

  • Gen 49:9
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    9 Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?

  • Job 39:29-30
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    29 From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off.

    30 Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she.

  • Job 38:39-40
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    39 Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,

    40 When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?

  • Job 4:10-11
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    73%

    10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

    11 The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.

  • Hos 13:7-8
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    7 Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them:

    8 I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.

  • Ps 17:12
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    12 Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

  • Ezek 19:10
    73%

    10 Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

  • Job 39:16
    73%

    16 She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear;

  • Isa 5:29
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    29 Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.

  • Num 23:24
    72%

    24 Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.

  • Ps 22:13
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    13 They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

  • Jer 2:15
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    15 The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.

  • Jer 50:12
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    12 Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

  • Zeph 3:3
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    3 Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.

  • Isa 11:7
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    7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

  • Jer 51:38
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    38 They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps.

  • Judg 14:5
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    5 Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion roared against him.

  • Hos 2:2-3
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    70%

    2 Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

    3 Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.

  • Joel 1:6
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    6 For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.

  • Deut 28:57
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    57 And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.

  • Ezek 16:44-45
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    44 Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.

    45 Thou art thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

  • Lam 4:3
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    3 Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

  • Hos 5:14
    69%

    14 For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.

  • Hos 2:5
    69%

    5 For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.

  • Ps 104:21
    69%

    21 The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.

  • Jer 5:6
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    6 Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.

  • Amos 3:4
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    4 Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?

  • Job 28:8
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    8 The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.

  • Jer 49:19
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    19 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?

  • Jer 2:30
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    30 In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

  • 2 Kgs 17:25
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    25 And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which slew some of them.

  • Prov 30:30
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    30 A lion which is strongest among beasts, and turneth not away for any;

  • Lam 3:10
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    10 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.