Holy Scripture
Ezekiel 19:6
A church father on this verse
“(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…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
6And he went up and down in the midst of lions, he became a lion, and learned to take prey, he devoured men.
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4And the nations heard a report of him; he was caught in their pit, and they brought him into the land of Egypt in chains.
5And she saw that he was driven away from her, and her hope of him perished, and she took another of her whelps; she made him a lion.
— Ezekiel 19:6 —
7And he prowled in his boldness and laid waste their cities, and made the land desolate, and the fullness of it, by the voice of his roaring.
8Then the nations set upon him from the countries round about, and they spread their nets upon him: he was taken in their pit.