1. “Moreover take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
2. and say:‘What is your mother? A lioness:She lay down among the lions;Among the young lions she nourished her cubs.
3. She brought up one of her cubs,And he became a young lion;He learned to catch prey,And he devoured men.
4. The nations also heard of him;He was trapped in their pit,And they brought him with chains to the land of Egypt.
5. ‘When she saw that she waited, that her hope was lost,She took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.
6. He roved among the lions,And became a young lion;He learned to catch prey;He devoured men.
7. He knew their desolate places,And laid waste their cities;The land with its fullness was desolatedBy the noise of his roaring.
8. Then the nations set against him from the provinces on every side,And spread their net over him;He was trapped in their pit.