Moreover
take thou up a lamentation for the princes of
Israel,
02 And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she
lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps
among young lions.
03 And she brought up one of her whelps: it
became a young lion, and it learned to catch the
prey; it devoured men.
04 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in
their pit, and they brought him with chains unto
the land of Egypt.
05 Now when she saw that she had waited, and her
hope was lost, then she took another of her
whelps, and made him a young lion.
06 And he went up and down among the lions, he
became a young lion, and learned to catch the
prey, and devoured men.
07 And he knew their desolate palaces, and he
laid waste their cities; and the land was
desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise
of his roaring.
08 Then the nations set against him on every side
from the provinces, and spread their net over
him: he was taken in their pit.
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09 And they put him in ward in chains, and
brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought
him into holds, that his voice should no more be
heard upon the mountains of Israel.
10 Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood,
planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full
of branches by reason of many waters.
11 And she had strong rods for the sceptres of
them that bare rule, and her stature was exalted
among the thick branches, and she appeared in her
height with the multitude of her branches.
12 But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast
down to the ground, and the east wind dried up
her fruit: her strong rods were broken and
withered; the fire consumed them.
13 And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a
dry and thirsty ground.
14 And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches,
which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath
no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a
lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
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