1. You, raise a lament for Israel’s princes.
2. Say:What a lioness among lionesses was your mother!She bedded down among the strong young lions and reared her cubs.
3. She singled out one of her cubs and he became a strong young lion;he learned to tear flesh and devour humans.
4. When the nations heard about him, they caught him in their trapand carried him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
5. When she realized that she waited in vain, her hope faded.So she took another of her cubs and set him up as a strong young lion.
6. He went on the prowl with the other lions and became a strong young lion.He learned to tear flesh and devour humans;
7. he ravaged their widows and laid waste to their cities.When the earth and everything in it became horrified by the sound of his raging,