1. “And take up a lamentation for the leaders of Yisra’ĕl,
2. and you shall say, ‘What a lioness was your mother among the lions! She lay down among the lions, in the midst of the young lions she reared her cubs.
3. ‘And she brought up one of her cubs, and he became a young lion. And he learned to tear the prey, he devoured men.
4. ‘Then nations heard of him. He was caught in their pit, and they brought him with chains to the land of Mitsrayim.