1. “Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
2. and say,‘What was your mother?A lioness.She couched amongst lions,in the middle of the young lions she nourished her cubs.
3. She brought up one of her cubs.He became a young lion.He learnt to catch the prey.He devoured men.
4. The nations also heard of him.He was taken in their pit;and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
5. “‘Now when she saw that she had waited,and her hope was lost,then she took another of her cubs,and made him a young lion.
6. He went up and down amongst the lions.He became a young lion.He learnt to catch the prey.He devoured men.
7. He knew their palaces,and laid waste their cities.The land was desolate,with its fullness,because of the noise of his roaring.