1 And take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
2 and thou shalt say, How hast thy mother, the lioness, lain down among the lions? She raised her whelps among the young lions.
3 And she brought up one of her whelps; it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey and to devour men.
4 The Gentiles also heard of him; he was taken in their trap, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.
5 Now when she saw that she had waited a long time and her hope was being lost, then she took another of her whelps and made him a young lion.
6 And he went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion and learned to catch the prey and devoured men.