4The nations heard about him, and he was trapped in their pit. They led him with hooks to the land of Egypt.


In Context

1 "Take up a lament concerning the princes of Israel

2 and say: " 'What a lioness was your mother among the lions! She lay down among the young lions and reared her cubs.

3 She brought up one of her cubs, and he became a strong lion. He learned to tear the prey and he devoured men.

4 The nations heard about him, and he was trapped in their pit. They led him with hooks to the land of Egypt.

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

6 He prowled among the lions, for he was now a strong lion. He learned to tear the prey and he devoured men.

Ezekiel 19:4 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:4The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

19:4And the nations heard of him, and took him, but not without receiving wounds: and they brought him in chains into the land of Egypt.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

19:4The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks unto the land of Egypt.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:4And the nations heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with nose-rings into the land of Egypt.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

19:4The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit: and they brought him with hooks unto the land of Egypt.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:4The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains to the land of Egypt.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:4The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

19:4And hear of it do nations, In their pit it hath been caught, And they bring it in with chains unto the land of Egypt.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:4The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains to the land of Egypt.