1. "As for you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel
2. and say, 'What was your mother? A lioness among lions! She lay down among young lions, She reared her cubs.
3. 'When she brought up one of her cubs, He became a lion, And he learned to tear his prey; He devoured men.
4. 'Then nations heard about him; He was captured in their pit, And they brought him with hooks To the land of Egypt.