Ezekiel 19:5

19:5 “‘When she realized that she waited in vain, her hope was lost.

She took another of her cubs 1  and made him a young lion.

Ezekiel 37:2

37:2 He made me walk all around among them. 2  I realized 3  there were a great many bones in the valley and they were very dry.

1 sn The identity of this second lion is unclear; the referent is probably Jehoiakim or Zedekiah. If the lioness is Hamutal, then Zedekiah is the lion described here.

2 tn Heb “and he made me pass over them, around, around.”

3 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and is here translated as “I realized” because it results from Ezekiel’s recognition of the situation around him. In Hebrew, the exclamation is repeated in the following sentence.