Ezekiel 19:2 Parallel Translations

Say: Your mother was like a lioness. She lay down among the lions. She fed many cubs.(GOD'S WORD®)

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

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

BBE:

What was your mother? Like a she-lion among lions, stretched out among the young lions she gave food to her little ones.

DBY:

and say, What was thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps in the midst of the young lions.

ERV:

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

JPS:

and say: How was thy mother a lioness; among lions she couched, in the midst of the young lions she reared her whelps!

WBS:

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

WEB:

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

YLT:

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.

Ezekiel 19:2 Cross References

XREF:

Ezekiel 19:1 "As for you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel

Ezekiel 19:3 When she brought up one of her cubs, He became a lion, And he learned to tear his prey; He devoured men. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

19:2 And say, What [is] thy {b} mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
(b) That is Jehoahaz's mother, or Jerusalem.

WES:

19:2 What - What resemblance shall I use to set out the nature, deportment, and state of the mother of these princes? Thy - One of whom was upon the throne at once, and therefore the prophet speaks to one at a time. Mother - The land of Judea, and Jerusalem, the chief city of it, the royal family of David. Lioness - Tho' chosen of God to execute justice; yet they soon degenerated into the fierce and ravening nature of the lioness. Lay down - Associated, and grew familiar with neighbour kings, called here lions; fierce and bloody. Her whelps - Her sons, successors to the crown. Young lions - Either foreign princes and kings, or some of the fierce, unjust, tyrannizing princes at home.

MHC:

19:1-9 Ezekiel is to compare the kingdom of Judah to a lioness. He must compare the kings of Judah to a lion's whelps; they were cruel and oppressive to their own subjects. The righteousness of God is to be acknowledged, when those who have terrified and enslaved others, are themselves terrified and enslaved. When professors of religion form connexions with ungodly persons, their children usually grow up following after the maxims and fashions of a wicked world. Advancement to authority discovers the ambition and selfishness of men's hearts; and those who spend their lives in mischief, generally end them by violence.

CONC:

Couched Crouched Cubs Hast Lay Lioness Lions Midst Multiplied Nourished Ones Reared Rearing She-lion Stretched Whelps

Couched Crouched Cubs Food Lioness Little Midst Mother Multiplied Nourished Ones Reared She-Lion Stretched Whelps Young

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