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1As for you, raise up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,[#Ezek 26.17; 27.2]
2and say:[#Isa 5.29; Nah 2.11, 12; Zech 11.3]
What a lioness was your mother
among lions!
She lay down among young lions,
rearing her cubs.
3She raised up one of her cubs;[#v 6 ; 2 Kings 23.31, 32]
he became a young lion,
and he learned to catch prey;
he devoured humans.
4The nations heard about him;[#2 Kings 23.33; 2 Chr 36.4]
he was caught in their pit,
and they brought him with hooks
to the land of Egypt.
5When she saw that she was thwarted,[#2 Kings 23.34]
that her hope was lost,
she took another of her cubs
and made him a young lion.
6He prowled among the lions;[#v 3 ; 2 Kings 24.9]
he became a young lion,
and he learned to catch prey;
he devoured people.
7And he ravaged their strongholds[#Ezek 12.19; 30.12; #19.7 Tg: Heb his widows]
and laid waste their towns;
the land was appalled, and all in it,
at the sound of his roaring.
8The nations set upon him[#v 4 ; 2 Kings 24.2]
from the provinces all around;
they spread their net over him;
he was caught in their pit.
9With hooks they put him in a neck collar[#2 Chr 36.6; Jer 22.18; Ezek 6.2]
and brought him to the king of Babylon;
they brought him into custody,
so that his voice should be heard no more
on the mountains of Israel.
10Your mother was like a vine in a vineyard[#Ps 80.8–11; #19.10 Cn: Heb in your blood]
transplanted by the water,
fruitful and full of branches
from abundant water.
11Its strongest stem became[#Ezek 31.3; Dan 4.11]
a ruler’s scepter;
it towered aloft
among the clouds;
it stood out in its height
with its mass of branches.
12But it was plucked up in fury,[#Jer 31.28; Ezek 17.10; 28.17; Hos 13.15]
cast down to the ground;
the east wind dried it up;
its fruit was stripped off;
its strong stem was withered;
the fire consumed it.
13Now it is transplanted into the wilderness,[#Hos 2.3]
into a dry and thirsty land.
14And fire has gone out from its stem,[#Lam 4.20; Ezek 15.4]
has consumed its branches and fruit,
so that there remains in it no strong stem,
no scepter for ruling.
This is a lamentation, and it is used as a lamentation.