1. “And take up a lamentation for the leaders of Yisra’ĕl,
2. and you shall say, ‘What a lioness was your mother among the lions! She lay down among the lions, in the midst of the young lions she reared her cubs.
3. ‘And she brought up one of her cubs, and he became a young lion. And he learned to tear the prey, he devoured men.
4. ‘Then nations heard of him. He was caught in their pit, and they brought him with chains to the land of Mitsrayim.
5. ‘When she saw, as she waited, that her expectancy was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.
6. ‘And he went about among the lions, and became a young lion. And he learned to tear the prey, he devoured men.
7. ‘And he knew their widows, and laid waste their cities. And the land and all who filled it was stunned by the noise of his roaring.