2 and say:‘What is your mother? A lioness:She lay down among the lions;Among the young lions she nourished her cubs.
3 She brought up one of her cubs,And he became a young lion;He learned to catch prey,And he devoured men.
4 The nations also heard of him;He was trapped in their pit,And they brought him with chains to the land of Egypt.
5 ‘When she saw that she waited, that her hope was lost,She took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.
6 He roved among the lions,And became a young lion;He learned to catch prey;He devoured men.
7 He knew their desolate places,And laid waste their cities;The land with its fullness was desolatedBy the noise of his roaring.
8 Then the nations set against him from the provinces on every side,And spread their net over him;He was trapped in their pit.