1 “Moreover ^atake up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,  ‡

2 and say:
‘What is your mother? A lioness:
She lay down among the lions;
Among the young lions she nourished her cubs.

3 She brought up one of her cubs,
And ^ahe became a young lion;
He learned to catch prey,
And he devoured men. ‡

4 The nations also heard of him;
He was trapped in their pit,
And they brought him with chains to the land of ^aEgypt. ‡