1 “And take up a lamentation for the leaders of Yisra’ĕl,
2 and you shall say, ‘What a lioness was your mother among the lions! She lay down among the lions, in the midst of the young lions she reared her cubs.
3 ‘And she brought up one of her cubs, and he became a young lion. And he learned to tear the prey, he devoured men.
4 ‘Then nations heard of him. He was caught in their pit, and they brought him with chains to the land of Mitsrayim.
5 ‘When she saw, as she waited, that her expectancy was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.
6 ‘And he went about among the lions, and became a young lion. And he learned to tear the prey, he devoured men.