Holy Scripture
Ezekiel 19:7
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
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.
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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.
6And he went up and down in the midst of lions, he became a lion, and learned to take prey, he devoured men.
— Ezekiel 19:7 —
8Then the nations set upon him from the countries round about, and they spread their nets upon him: he was taken in their pit.
9And they put him in chains and in a cage, and he came to the king of Babylon; and he cast him into prison, that his voice should not be heard on the mountains of Israel.