1Thou also take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
2And say, Wherefore lay thy mother as a lioness among the lions? she nourished her young ones among the lion’s whelps,
3And she brought up one of her whelps, and it became a lion, and it learned to catch the prey, and it devoured men.
4The nations also heard of him, and he was taken in their nets, and they brought him in chains unto the land of Egypt.
5Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, she took another of her whelps, and made him a lion.
6Which went among the lions, and became a lion, and learned to catch the prey, and he devoured men.
7And he knew their widows, and he destroyed their cities, and the land was wasted, and all that was therein by the noise of his roaring.
8Then the nations set against him on every side of the countries, and laid their nets for him: so he was taken in their pit.
9And they put him in prison and in chains, and brought him to the king of Babel, and they put him in holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.
10Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she brought forth fruit and branches by the abundant waters,
11And she had strong rods for the scepters of them that bear rule, and her stature was exalted among the branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.
12But she was plucked up in wrath: she was cast down to the ground, and the East wind dried up her fruit: her branches were broken and withered: as for the rod of her strength, the fire consumed it.
13And now she is planted in the wilderness in a dry and thirsty ground.
14And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a scepter to rule: this is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.