1 “As for you, raise a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
2 and say: ‘What was your mother? A lioness! Among lions she couched, among young lions she reared her cubs.
3 When she raised up one of her cubs, he became a young lion. When he learned to tear prey, he devoured people.
4 When the nations heard about him, he was caught in their pit. They brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.