5But she seeing herself weakened, and that her hope was lost, took one of her young lions, and set him up for a lion.


In Context

2 And say: Why did thy mother the lioness lie down among the lions, and bring up her whelps in the midst of young lions?

3 And she brought out one of her whelps, and he became a lion: and he learned to catch the prey, and to devour men.

4 And the nations heard of him, and took him, but not without receiving wounds: and they brought him in chains into the land of Egypt.

5 But she seeing herself weakened, and that her hope was lost, took one of her young lions, and set him up for a lion.

6 And he went up and down among the lions, and became a lion: and he learned to catch the prey, and to devour men.

7 He learned to make widows, and to lay waste their cities: and the land became desolate, and the fulness thereof by the noise of his roaring.

Ezekiel 19:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:5Now when she saw that she had waited, [and] her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, [and] made him a young lion.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

19:5" 'When she saw her hope unfulfilled, her expectation gone, she took another of her cubs and made him a strong lion.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

19:5Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:5And when she saw that she had waited and her hope was lost, she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

19:5Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:5Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:5Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her cubs, and made him a young lion.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

19:5And she seeth, that stayed — perished hath her hope, And she taketh one of her whelps, A young lion she hath made it.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:5Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.