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.
5. 'When she saw, as she waited, That her hope was lost, She took another of her cubs And made him a young lion.
6. 'And he walked about among the lions; He became a young lion, He learned to tear his prey; He devoured men.