1Moreover, take thou up a lamentation for the…
2and say, What was thy mother? A lioness:…
3And she brought up one of her whelps:…
4The nations also heard of him; he was…
5Now when she saw that she had waited,…
6And he went up and down among the…
7And he knew their palaces, and laid waste…
8Then the nations set against him on every…
9And they put him in a cage with…
10Thy mother was like a vine, in thy…
11And it had strong rods for the sceptres…
12But it was plucked up in fury, it…
13And now it is planted in the wilderness,…
14And fire is gone out of the rods…
