Eze 19:2, Hos 2:2, 5 | ESV | STEP | and say : What was your mother ? A lioness ! Among lions she crouched ; in the midst of young lions she reared her cubs .

Ezekiel 19:2

2 and say:

What was your mother? ^aA lioness!
Among lions she crouched;
in the midst of young lions
she reared her cubs.

Hosea 2:2

2 “Plead with your mother, plead—
for ^bshe is not my wife,
and I am not her husband—
that she put away ^cher whoring from her face,
and her adultery from between her breasts;

Hosea 2:5

5 For ^dtheir mother has played the whore;
she who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For ^eshe said, ‘I will go after my lovers,
who ^fgive me my bread and my water,
my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’