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.
5. ‘When she saw, as she waited, that her expectancy was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.
6. ‘And he went about among the lions, and became a young lion. And he learned to tear the prey, he devoured men.
7. ‘And he knew their widows, and laid waste their cities. And the land and all who filled it was stunned by the noise of his roaring.
8. ‘Then nations set against him from the provinces on every side, and spread their net over him, he was caught in their pit.
9. ‘And they put him in a cage in chains, and brought him to the sovereign of Baḇel. They brought him in nets, so his roar was no longer heard on the mountains of Yisra’ĕl.