1. “Take up a lament concerning the princes of Israel
2. and say: “ ‘What a lioness was your mother among the lions! She lay down among them and reared her cubs.
3. She brought up one of her cubs, and he became a strong lion. He learned to tear the prey and he became a man-eater.
4. The nations heard about him, and he was trapped in their pit. They led him with hooks to the land of Egypt.