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Ezekiel 19:5 KJV
Ezekiel · chapter 19 · verse 5
Now 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.Ezekiel 19:5 · King James Version
Ezekiel 19:5 in context
3And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
4The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.
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.
6And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.
7And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- waitedyâchalto waitH3176 →
- whelpsgûwra cub , especially of the lionH1482 →
- hopetiqvâhliterally a cordH8615 →
- lostʼâbadproperly, to wander awayH6 →
- tooklâqachto takeH3947 →
- madesûwmto putH7760 →
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Here are, I. Orders given to the prophet to bewail the fall of the royal family, which had long made so great a figure by virtue of a covenant of royalty made with David and his seed, so that the eclipsing and extinguishing of it are justly lamented by all who know what value to put upon the covenant of our God, as we…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-9