Ezekiel 19:2
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
And say, What is your mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
American King James Version (AKJV)
And say, What is your mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
American Standard Version (ASV)
and say, What was thy mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her whelps.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
What was your mother? Like a she-lion among lions, stretched out among the young lions she gave food to her little ones.
Webster's Revision
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.
English Revised Version (ERV)
and say, What was thy mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her whelps.
Clarke's Ezekiel 19:2 Bible Commentary
What is thy mother? A lioness - Judea may here be the mother; the lioness, Jerusalem. Her lying down among lions, her having confederacy with the neighboring kings; for lion here means king.
Barnes's Ezekiel 19:2 Bible Commentary
Thy mother - The people represented by Judah. Compare Genesis 49:9; Numbers 23:24.
Wesley's Ezekiel 19:2 Bible Commentary
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.
