And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsand say, What was thy mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her whelps.
and say: ‘What was your mother? A lioness among the lions! She lay down among the young lions; she reared her cubs.
and thou hast said: What is thy mother? --a lioness, Among lions she hath crouched down, In the midst of young lions she hath multiplied her whelps.
and say, What was thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps in the midst of the young lions.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentEzekiel — The exile prophet — priest taken to Babylon in 597 BC, writing to a community still convinced the exile is temporary. Wheels within wheels, the glory departing, dry bones coming to life, and the city whose new name is YHWH Shammah — ‘the LORD is there.’
- Author
- Ezekiel, son of Buzi the priest (1:3)
- Date
- Dated oracles 593 BC (1:1, fifth year of Jehoiachin's exile) to 571 BC (29:17)