1 “Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
2 and say,‘What was your mother?A lioness.She couched among lions,in the middle of the young lions she nourished her cubs.
3 She brought up one of her cubs.He became a young lion.He learned to catch the prey.He devoured men.
4 The nations also heard of him.He was taken in their pit;and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
5 “‘Now when she saw that she had waited,and her hope was lost,then she took another of her cubs,and made him a young lion.
6 He went up and down among the lions.He became a young lion.He learned to catch the prey.He devoured men.
7 He knew their palaces,and laid waste their cities.The land was desolate,with its fullness,because of the noise of his roaring.