John Trapp on Ezekiel 19:2

Ver. 2. What is thy mother?] Whereby is meant thy City of Jeruſalem and people of the Jewes, who toke theſe four for their Kings, and ſoon had enough of them.

A Lioneſſe] So called for her nobleneſſe, courage and cruelty.

She lay down among lions] Alludit ad coitum: it ſignifieth that this State, by converſing with other Heathen Princes, had been corrupted by them, and conformed unto them.

She nouriſhed her whelps among young Lions] From whom they took in but few good Principles for young Princes. Wickedneſſe is ſoon learned. Of a certain Prince of Germany it was ſaid, Eſſet alius ſi eſſet apud alios, his company undid him: ſo it did Julian the Apoſtate.