1. And thou, take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
2. and say, What was thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps in the midst of the young lions.
3. And she brought up one of her whelps; it became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.
4. And the nations heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with nose-rings into the land of Egypt.
5. And when she saw that she had waited and her hope was lost, she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.
6. And he went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.
7. And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities, so that the land was desolate, and all it contained, by the noise of his roaring.