1. And you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel.
2. And you shall say; How was your mother a lioness! Among the lions she couched; amidst young lions she reared her cubs.
3. And she raised up one of her cubs; he was a young lion; he learned to attack prey; he devoured men.
4. Nations gathered around him: in their pit he was caught, and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
5. Now she saw that she had taken ill; her hope was lost, and she took one of her cubs and made him a young lion.
6. Now he walked among the lions-he was a young lion- and he learned to attack prey; he devoured men.
7. And he was intimate with their widows, and their cities he laid waste; and the land and the fullness thereof became desolate from the sound of his roar.
8. And nations gathered around against him from provinces, and they spread their net upon him: he was caught in their pit.
9. And they put him into a collar, with hooks, and they brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into strongholds in order that his voice no longer be heard on the mountains of Israel.
10. Your mother is like a vine in your likeness, planted by the water, fruitful and full of branches; it resulted from many waters.
11. And it had sturdy rods for the scepters of the rulers, and its height was raised over between the interwoven branches, and it could be seen because of its height with its many tendrils.
12. And it was scattered with fury; to the ground it was cast, and the east wind dried up its fruit; they were broken and withered; its sturdy rod-fire devoured it.
13. And now it is planted in the desert, in a desolate and thirsty land.
14. And fire came out of the staff of its sturdy branches [and] devoured its fruit, and in it was no sturdy rod or scepter to rule. It is a lamentation, and it will be a lamentation.
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