Ezekiel 19:1-4

Song of Mourning for the Leaders of Israel

¹“As for you, take up a song of mourning for the leaders of Israel ²and say,

‘What was your mother?

A lioness among lions!

She lay down among young lions,

She raised her cubs.

3‘When she brought up one of her cubs,

He became a young lion,

And he learned to tear his prey;

He devoured people.

4‘Then nations heard about him;

He was caught in their trap,

And they brought him with hooks

To the land of Egypt.