1. And take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
2. and thou shalt say, How hast thy mother, the lioness, lain down among the lions? She raised her whelps among the young lions.
3. And she brought up one of her whelps; it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey and to devour men.
4. The Gentiles also heard of him; he was taken in their trap, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.
5. Now when she saw that she had waited a long time and her hope was being lost, then she took another of her whelps and made him a young lion.