1. “Sing a funeral song for the leaders of Israel.
2. Say:‘Your mother was like a female lion.She lay down among the young lions.She had many cubs.
3. She brought up one of her cubs.And he became a strong lion.He learned to tear the animals he hunted.And he ate people.
4. The nations heard about him.He was trapped in their pit.And they brought him with hooksto the land of Egypt.
5. “‘The mother lion waited and sawthat there was no hope for her cub.So she took another one of her cubsand made him a strong lion.
6. This cub roamed among the lions.He was now a strong lion.He learned to tear the animals he hunted.And he ate people.
7. He destroyed their strong places.He destroyed their cities.The land and everything in itwere terrified by the sound of his roar.