Thy mother. — Mother stands for the whole national community — the theocracy, as is plain from Ezekiel 19:10. This was represented, since the captivity of the ten tribes, by Judah; and her “princes,” of the line of David, were the legitimate kings of the whole nation. The figure of the lion is a common one in Scripture (see Genesis 49:9; Numbers 23:24; Numbers 24:9), and was also familiar in Babylonia.
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Ezekiel 19:2
2 And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.