Ezekiel 19:2

and say, Why is your mother become a whelp in the midst of lions? in the midst of lions she has multiplied her whelps.

And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.

and say, ‘What was your mother? A lioness. She couched among lions, in the middle of the young lions she nourished her cubs.