1 Moreover take up a lamentation for the officials of Israel,
2 and say: What was your mother?A lioness among lions!She lay down among young lions;she nourished her whelps.
3 When she brought up one of her whelps,he became a lionand learned to catch his prey;he devoured men.
4 The nations also heard of him;he was taken in their pit,and they brought him with chainsto the land of Egypt.
5 Now when she saw as she had waitedthat her hope was lost,then she took another of her whelpsand made him a young lion.
6 He went up and down among the lions;he became a young lion,and learned to catch the prey,and devoured men.