Now you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel.

Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

Say, 'What was your mother? A lioness among lions! She lay down among the young lions and raised her cubs.'

And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.

She brought up one of her cubs; he became a young lion. He learned to tear prey and devoured men.

And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.

The nations heard about him; he was trapped in their pit. They captured him with hooks and brought him to the land of Egypt.

The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.

When she saw that her hope was lost and her waiting was in vain, she took another one of her cubs and made him into a young lion.

Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.

He prowled among the lions; he became a young lion. He learned to tear prey and devoured people.

And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.

He destroyed their strongholds and devastated their cities. The land and its fullness were desolated at the sound of his roaring.

And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.

The nations surrounded him from all their provinces. They spread their net over him and trapped him in their pit.

Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.

They put him in a cage with hooks and brought him to the king of Babylon. They brought him into strongholds so his roaring would no longer be heard on the mountains of Israel.

And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.

Your mother was like a vine planted by the waters, fruitful and full of branches because of abundant waters.

Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

Its branches were strong, fit for rulers' scepters. It towered high; its height was noticeable among the branches, in the lushness of its abundance.

And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.

But it was uprooted in fury, cast to the ground. The east wind dried out its fruit. Its strong branches were broken off and dried up, consumed by fire.

But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.

Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.

And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.

Fire went out from its branch, consuming its fruit. There was no strong rod left in it, no scepter fit to rule. This is a lamentation, and it has become a lamentation.

And 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 sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.