"As for you, take up a alamentation for the bprinces of Israel
2and say, ` 1What was your mother? A lioness among lions! She lay down among young lions, She reared her cubs.
3`When she brought up one of her cubs, He became a lion, And he learned to tear his prey; He devoured men.
4`Then nations heard about him; He was captured in their pit, And they abrought him with hooks To the land of Egypt.
5`When she saw, as she waited, That her hope was lost, She took 1another of her cubs And made him a young lion.
6`And he awalked about among the lions; He became a young lion, He learned to tear his prey; He devoured men.
7`He 1destroyed their 2fortified towers And laid waste their cities; And the land and its fullness were appalled Because of the sound of his roaring.
8`Then anations set against him On every side from their provinces, And they spread their net over him; He was captured in their pit.
9` aThey put him in a cage with hooks And bbrought him to the king of Babylon; They brought him in hunting nets So that his voice would be heard no more On the mountains of Israel.
10`Your mother was alike a vine in your 1vineyard, Planted by the waters; It was fruitful and full of branches Because of abundant waters.
11`And it had 1 astrong branches fit for scepters of rulers, And its bheight was raised above the clouds So that it was seen in its height with the mass of its branches.
12`But it was aplucked up in fury; It was bcast down to the ground; And the ceast wind dried up its fruit. Its 1 dstrong branch 2was torn off So that 3it withered; The fire consumed it.
13`And now it is planted in the awilderness, In a dry and thirsty land.
14`And afire has gone out from its branch; It has consumed its shoots and fruit, So that there is not in it a 1strong branch, A scepter to rule.' " This is a lamentation, and has become a lamentation.