Ezekiel 19:2
ContextNET © | and say: “‘What a lioness was your mother among the lions! She lay among young lions; 1 she reared her cubs. |
NIV © | and say: "‘What a lioness was your mother among the lions! She lay down among the young lions and reared her cubs. |
NASB © | and say, ‘What was your mother? A lioness among lions! She lay down among young lions, She reared her cubs. |
NLT © | ‘What is your mother? A lioness among lions! She lay down among the young lions and reared her cubs. |
MSG © | Say: What a lioness was your mother among lions! She crouched in a pride of young lions. Her cubs grew large. |
BBE © | What was your mother? Like a she-lion among lions, stretched out among the young lions she gave food to her little ones. |
NRSV © | and say: What a lioness was your mother among lions! She lay down among young lions, rearing her cubs. |
NKJV © | "and say: ‘What is your mother? A lioness: She lay down among the lions; Among the young lions she nourished her cubs. |
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NET © | and say: “‘What a lioness was your mother among the lions! She lay among young lions; 1 she reared her cubs. |
NET © Notes |
1 sn Lions probably refer to Judahite royalty and/or nobility. The lioness appears to symbolize the Davidic dynasty, though some see the referent as Hamutal, the wife of Josiah and mother of Jehoahaz and Zedekiah. Gen 49:9 seems to be the background for Judah being compared to lions. |