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.
5. Now when she saw as she had waitedthat her hope was lost,then she took another of her whelpsand made him a young lion.