8
Then the nations set upon him from the countries round about, and they spread their nets upon him: he was taken in their pit.
9
And they put him in chains and in a cage, he came to the king of Babylon; and he cast him into prison, that his voice should not be heard on the mountains of Israel.
10
Thy mother was as a vine and as a blossom on a pomegranate tree, planted by water: her fruit and her shoot abounded by reason of much water.
11
And she became a rod for a tribe of princes, and was elevated in her bulk in the midst of trees, and she saw her bulk in the multitude of her branches.
12
But she was broken down in wrath, she was cast upon the ground, and the east wind dried up her choice : vengeance came upon them, and the rod of her strength was withered; fire consumed it.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.