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She raised up one of her cubs;
    he grew into a young lion,
and he learned to tear apart his prey;
    he devoured men.
Then the nations sounded an alarm against him,
    and he was caught in their pit.
They dragged him off with hooks
    to the land of Egypt.
When his mother saw that her hopes were thwarted
    and her expectations would not be fulfilled,
she took another of her cubs
    and made a young lion of him.

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