Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
What was your mother? Like a she-lion among lions, stretched out among the young lions she gave food to her little ones.
New American Standard Bible
and say,
‘
A lioness among lions!
She lay down among young lions,
She reared her cubs.
King James Version
And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
Holman Bible
and say:
She lay down among the lions;
she reared her cubs among the young lions.
International Standard Version
Tell them: "What a lioness your mother was among lions! She reared her cubs in the midst of fierce young males.
A Conservative Version
and say, What was thy mother? A lioness. She couched among lions. In the midst of the young lions she nourished her whelps.
American Standard Version
and say, What was thy mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her whelps.
Amplified
and say,
A lioness among lions!
She lay down among young lions,
She reared her cubs.
Darby Translation
and say, What was thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps in the midst of the young lions.
Julia Smith Translation
And say, What thy mother? a lioness: between lions she lay down, in the midst of young lions she brought up her whelps
King James 2000
And say, What is your mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her cubs among young lions.
Lexham Expanded Bible
and you must say, 'What a lioness [was] your mother among [the] lions. She lay down in the midst of young lions, [and] she reared her lion cubs.
Modern King James verseion
and say: What is your mother? A lioness. She lay down among lions; she multiplied her cubs among young lions.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
and say, "Wherefore lay thy mother, that lioness, among the lions, and nourished her young ones among the lion's whelps?
NET Bible
and say: "'What a lioness was your mother among the lions! She lay among young lions; she reared her cubs.
New Heart English Bible
and say, 'What was your mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her cubs.
The Emphasized Bible
and thou shalt say - How was thy mother a lioness, Between lions, she lay down,- I n the midst of young lions, She nourished her whelps;
Webster
And say, What is thy mother: A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
World English Bible
and say, What was your mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her cubs.
Youngs Literal Translation
and thou hast said: What is thy mother? -- a lioness, Among lions she hath crouched down, In the midst of young lions she hath multiplied her whelps.
Themes
Parables » Of the old testament » Of the prophets
Truth » Illustrated in parables of the old testament » Of the prophets
Interlinear
Rabah
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezekiel 19:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Lament For The Leaders Of Israel
1 Take up now a song of grief for the ruler of Israel, and say, 2 What was your mother? Like a she-lion among lions, stretched out among the young lions she gave food to her little ones. 3 And one of her little ones came to growth under her care, and became a young lion, learning to go after beasts for his food; and he took men for his meat.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 4:11
The old lion comes to his end for need of food, and the young of the she-lion go wandering in all directions.
Psalm 58:6
O God, let their teeth be broken in their mouths; let the great teeth of the young lions be pulled out, O Lord.
Isaiah 5:29
The sound of their armies will be like the voice of a lion, and their war-cry like the noise of young lions: with loud cries they will come down on their food and will take it away safely, and there will be no one to take it out of their hands.
Isaiah 11:6-9
And the wolf will be living with the lamb, and the leopard will take his rest with the young goat; and the lion will take grass for food like the ox; and the young lion will go with the young ones of the herd; and a little child will be their guide.
Nahum 2:11-12
Where is the lions' hole, the place where the young lions got their food, where the lion and the she-lion were walking with their young, without cause for fear?
Zephaniah 3:1-4
Sorrow to her who is uncontrolled and unclean, the cruel town!
Zechariah 11:3
The sound of the crying of the keepers of the flock! for their glory is made waste: the sound of the loud crying of the young lions! for the pride of Jordan is made waste.