1. “Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
2. and say, ‘What was your mother? A lioness. She couched among lions, in the middle of the young lions she nourished her cubs.
3. She brought up one of her cubs. He became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey. He devoured men.
4. The nations also heard of him. He was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
5. “‘Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her cubs, and made him a young lion.
6. He went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey. He devoured men.
7. He knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, with its fullness, because of the noise of his roaring.
8. Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces; and they spread their net over him. He was taken in their pit.
9. They put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon. They brought him into strongholds, that his voice should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel.