Ezekiel 19:2

World English Bible (2000)

and say, What was your mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her cubs.

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  • Job 4:11 : 11 The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.
  • Ps 58:6 : 6 Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.
  • Isa 5:29 : 29 Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, and seize their prey and carry it off, and there will be no one to deliver.
  • Isa 11:6-9 : 6 The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat; The calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf together; and a little child will lead them. 7 The cow and the bear will graze. Their young ones will lie down together. The lion will eat straw like the ox. 8 The nursing child will play near a cobra's hole, and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper's den. 9 They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.
  • Nah 2:11-12 : 11 Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, the lion's cubs, and no one made them afraid? 12 The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill, and his dens with prey.
  • Zeph 3:1-4 : 1 Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, the oppressing city! 2 She didn't obey the voice. She didn't receive correction. She didn't trust in Yahweh. She didn't draw near to her God. 3 Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day. 4 Her prophets are arrogant and treacherous people. Her priests have profaned the sanctuary. They have done violence to the law.
  • Zech 11:3 : 3 A voice of the wailing of the shepherds! For their glory is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions! For the pride of the Jordan is ruined.

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  • Ezek 19:3-7
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    3 She brought up one of her cubs: he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.

    4 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.

    5 Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her cubs, and made him a young lion.

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

    7 He knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and its fullness, because of the noise of his roaring.

  • Nah 2:11-13
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    79%

    11 Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, the lion's cubs, and no one made them afraid?

    12 The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill, and his dens with prey.

    13 "Behold, I am against you," says Yahweh of Armies, "and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard."

  • Ezek 19:1
    77%

    1 Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

  • Gen 49:9
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    9 Judah is a lion's cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up?

  • Job 39:29-30
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    29 From there he spies out the prey. His eyes see it afar off.

    30 His young ones also suck up blood. Where the slain are, there he is."

  • Job 38:39-40
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    39 "Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

    40 when they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thicket?

  • Job 4:10-11
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    73%

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

    11 The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.

  • Hos 13:7-8
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    7 Therefore I am like a lion to them. Like a leopard, I will lurk by the path.

    8 I will meet them like a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, and will tear the covering of their heart. There I will devour them like a lioness. The wild animal will tear them.

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

  • Ezek 19:10
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    10 Your mother was like a vine, in your blood, planted by the waters: it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

  • Job 39:16
    73%

    16 She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear,

  • Isa 5:29
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    29 Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, and seize their prey and carry it off, and there will be no one to deliver.

  • Num 23:24
    72%

    24 Behold, the people rises up as a lioness, As a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain."

  • Ps 22:13
    72%

    13 They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.

  • Jer 2:15
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    15 The young lions have roared at him, and yelled. They have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.

  • Jer 50:12
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    12 your mother shall be utterly disappointed; she who bore you shall be confounded: behold, she shall be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

  • Zeph 3:3
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    3 Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.

  • Isa 11:7
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    7 The cow and the bear will graze. Their young ones will lie down together. The lion will eat straw like the ox.

  • Jer 51:38
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    38 They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions' cubs.

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

  • Hos 2:2-3
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    2 Contend with your mother! Contend, for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her prostitution from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

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

  • Joel 1:6
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    6 For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness.

  • Deut 28:57
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    57 and toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your gates.

  • Ezek 16:44-45
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    44 Behold, everyone who uses proverbs shall use [this] proverb against you, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.

    45 You are the daughter of your mother, who loathes her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

  • Lam 4:3
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    3 Even the jackals draw out the breast, they nurse their young ones: The daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

  • Hos 5:14
    69%

    14 For I will be to Ephraim like a lion, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear in pieces and go away. I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver.

  • Hos 2:5
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    5 For their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done shamefully; for she said, 'I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.'

  • Ps 104:21
    69%

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

  • Jer 5:6
    69%

    6 Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; everyone who goes out there shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, [and] their backsliding is increased.

  • Amos 3:4
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    4 Will a lion roar in the thicket, when he has no prey? Does a young lion cry out of his den, if he has caught nothing?

  • Job 28:8
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    8 The proud animals have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by there.

  • Jer 49:19
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    19 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd who will stand before me?

  • Jer 2:30
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    30 "I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

  • 2 Kgs 17:25
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    25 So it was, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they didn't fear Yahweh: therefore Yahweh sent lions among them, which killed some of them.

  • Prov 30:30
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    30 The lion, which is mightiest among animals, and doesn't turn away for any;

  • Lam 3:10
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    10 He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.