“(Chapter 19, verses 1 onwards) And you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, and say: Why did your mother, a lioness, lie down among lions? In the midst of young lions she raised her cubs. And one of her cubs grew up, he became a lion and learned to catch prey and devour men. The nations heard about him an…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Ezekiel
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2And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
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1Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
— Ezekiel 19:2 —
3And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
4The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.