1. Moreover take up a lamentation for the officials of Israel,
2. and say: What was your mother?A lioness among lions!She lay down among young lions;she nourished her whelps.
3. When she brought up one of her whelps,he became a lionand learned to catch his prey;he devoured men.
4. The nations also heard of him;he was taken in their pit,and they brought him with chainsto the land of Egypt.