Yehezkiel 19:2

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

dan katakanlah begini: "Betapa ibumu menjadi seekor singa betina di antara singa-singa! Ia berbaring di antara singa-singa muda, dan menyusui anak-anaknya.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
dan katakanlah begini: "Betapa ibumu menjadi seekor singa betina di antara singa-singa! Ia berbaring di antara singa-singa muda, dan menyusui anak-anaknya.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Katakanlah: Bukankah ibumu seperti seekor singa betina yang menjungkang di antara segala singa betina? maka di antara segala singa jantanpun dipeliharakannya segala anak-anaknya.

Contextual Overview

¹ Thou also take vp a lamentation for the princes of Israel, ² And say: wherfore lay thy mother that lionesse among the lions? she norished her young ones among the lions whelpes. ³ One of her whelpes she brought vp, and it be came a lion, it learned to catche the pray and to deuour folke. ⁴ The heathen hearde of hym, and caught hym in their snare, and brought hym in hookes vnto the lande of Egypt. ⁵ Nowe when she sawe that she had wayted and her hope was lost, she toke another of her whelpes and made a lion of hym. ⁶ Which went among the lions, and became a fearce lion, learned to catche the pray, and to deuour folke, ⁷ He destroyed their palaces and made their cities waste, insomuch that the whole lande and euery thyng therin were vtterly desolate through the voyce of his roaryng. ⁸ Then set the heathen together on euery side of the countreis agaynst him, layde their nettes for him, and toke him in their pit. ⁹ So they put him in prison in chaynes, and brought him to the kyng of Babylon: they put him in holdes, that his voyce shoulde no more be hearde vpon the mountaynes of Israel.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

A lioness: Judea, which possessed strength, courage, and sovereignty. Nahum 2:11, Nahum 2:12, Zephaniah 3:1-4

she lay: Had confederacy with the neighbouring kings, and learned their manners.

her whelps: The sons of Josiah, who learned to be oppressive tyrants from the surrounding princes.

young lions: Job 4:11, Psalms 58:6, Isaiah 5:29, Isaiah 11:6-9, Zechariah 11:3

Reciprocal: Psalms 104:21 - The young Jeremiah 13:18 - unto Ezekiel 19:10 - mother Ezekiel 24:3 - utter Ezekiel 32:2 - Thou art like Matthew 14:11 - and given Mark 6:24 - said James 5:1 - weep

Cross-References

Genesis 18:4
Let a litle water, I pray you, be fet, and washe your feete, and refreshe your selues vnder the tree.

Genesis 19:17
And when he had brought them out, he sayde: Saue thy selfe, and loke not behynde thee, neither tary thou in all this playne [countrey] Saue thy selfe in the mountaine, lest thou perishe.

Genesis 19:21
And he sayde to hym: See, I haue receaued thy request as concernyng this thing, that I wyll not ouerthrowe this citie for the whiche thou hast spoken.

Genesis 19:28
And behelde, and lo the smoke of the countrey arose, as the smoke of a furnesse.

Genesis 19:29
And it came to passe, that when God destroyed the cities of that region, he thought vpon Abraham, and sent Lot out from the middest of the ouerthrow, when he ouerthrewe the cities, in one of the whiche Lot dwelled.

Acts 16:15
And when she was baptized, and her householde, she besought vs, saying: Yf ye haue iudged me to be faythfull to the Lorde, come into my house, and abyde there. And she constrayned vs.

Hebrews 13:2
Be not forgetfull to lodge straungers: For therby some hauyng lodged Angels, were vnawares therof.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And say, what [is] thy mother?.... That is, say so to the then reigning prince, Zedekiah, what is thy mother like? to what is she to be compared? by whom is meant, not the royal family of David only, or Jerusalem the metropolis of the nation, but the whole body of the people; and so the Targum interprets it of the congregation of Israel. The answer to the question is,

a lioness; she is like to one, not for her strength and glory, but for her cruelty and rapine; for her want of humanity, mercy, and justice:

she lay down among lions; that is, kings, as the Targum interprets it Heathen princes, the kings of the nations about them, as of Egypt and Babylon, Jeremiah 50:17; so called for their despotic and arbitrary power, tyranny, and cruelty: now this lioness, the people of the Jews, lay down among them, joined with them in leagues and marriages, and learned their manners, and became of the same temper and disposition:

she nourisheth her whelps among young lions; princes, as the Targum explains it; either the princes of Judah, who were become like young lions, fierce and cruel; or the princes of other nations, among whom the children of the royal family were brought up; or, however, they were trained up in the principles of such, even of arbitrary and despotic power, and were taught to oppress their subjects, and not execute justice and mercy among them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thy mother - The people represented by Judah. Compare Genesis 49:9; Numbers 23:24.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 19:2. 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 neighbouring kings; for lion here means king.