1. Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
2. And say: Why did thy mother the lioness lie down among the lions, and bring up her whelps in the midst of young lions?
3. And she brought out one of her whelps, and he became a lion: and he learned to catch the prey, and to devour men.
4. And the nations heard of him, and took him, but not without receiving wounds: and they brought him in chains into the land of Egypt.
5. But she seeing herself weakened, and that her hope was lost, took one of her young lions, and set him up for a lion.
6. And he went up and down among the lions, and became a lion: and he learned to catch the prey, and to devour men.
7. He learned to make widows, and to lay waste their cities: and the land became desolate, and the fulness thereof by the noise of his roaring.
8. And the nations Game together against him on every side out of the provinces, and they spread their net over him, in their wounds he was taken.