1 "Sing a song of sadness about Israel's princes.
2 Say to Israel, " 'You were like a mother lion to your princes. She lay down among the young lions. She brought up her cubs.
3 One of them was Jehoahaz. He became a strong lion. He learned to tear apart what he caught. And he ate men up.
4 The nations heard about him. They trapped him in their pit. They put hooks in his face. And they led him away to Egypt.
5 " 'The mother lion looked and waited. But all of her hope was gone. So she got another one of her cubs. She made him into a strong lion.