1“Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes…
2and say, ‘What was your mother? A lioness.…
3She brought up one of her cubs. He…
4The nations also heard of him. He was…
5“‘Now when she saw that she had waited,…
6He went up and down among the lions.…
7He knew their palaces, and laid waste their…
8Then the nations attacked him on every side…
9They put him in a cage with hooks,…
10“‘Your mother was like a vine in your…
11It had strong branches for the scepters of…
12But it was plucked up in fury. It…
13Now it is planted in the wilderness, in…
14Fire has gone out of its branches. It…
