1. “As for you, raise a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
2. and say: ‘What was your mother? A lioness! Among lions she couched, among young lions she reared her cubs.
3. When she raised up one of her cubs, he became a young lion. When he learned to tear prey, he devoured people.
4. When the nations heard about him, he was caught in their pit. They brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.