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A Lament Over Israel’s Princes
19 “Take up a lamentl concerning the princesm of Israel 2 and say:
“ ‘What a lionessn was your mother
among the lions!
She lay down among them
and reared her cubs.o
3 She brought up one of her cubs,
and he became a strong lion.
He learned to tear the prey
and he became a man-eater.
4 The nations heard about him,
and he was trapped in their pit.
They led him with hooksp
to the land of Egypt.q
5 “ ‘When she saw her hope unfulfilled,
her expectation gone,
she took another of her cubsr
and made him a strong lion.s
for he was now a strong lion.
He learned to tear the prey
and he became a man-eater.t
7 He broke downa their strongholds
and devastatedu their towns.
The land and all who were in it
were terrified by his roaring.
8 Then the nationsv came against him,
those from regions round about.
They spread their netw for him,
and he was trapped in their pit.x
9 With hooksy they pulled him into a cage
and brought him to the king of Babylon.z
They put him in prison,
so his roara was heard no longer
on the mountains of Israel.b
10 “ ‘Your mother was like a vine in your vineyardb c
planted by the water;d
it was fruitful and full of branches
because of abundant water.e
fit for a ruler’s scepter.
It towered high
above the thick foliage,
conspicuous for its height
and for its many branches.f
12 But it was uprootedg in fury
and thrown to the ground.
The east windh made it shrivel,
it was stripped of its fruit;
its strong branches withered
and fire consumed them.i
13 Now it is planted in the desert,j
in a dry and thirsty land.k
14 Fire spread from one of its mainc branches
and consumedl its fruit.
No strong branch is left on it
fit for a ruler’s scepter.’m
“This is a lamentn and is to be used as a lament.”
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