The Latin Vulgate VUL
English Standard Version ESV
1 et tu adsume planctum super principes Israhel
1
And you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
2 et dices quare mater tua leaena inter leones cubavit in medio leunculorum enutrivit catulos suos
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and say: What was your mother? A lioness! Among lions she crouched; in the midst of young lions she reared her cubs.
3 et eduxit unum de leunculis suis leo factus est et didicit capere praedam hominemque comedere
3
And she brought up one of her cubs; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey; he devoured men.
4 et audierunt de eo gentes et non absque vulneribus suis ceperunt eum et adduxerunt eum in catenis in terram Aegypti
4
The nations heard about him; he was caught in their pit, and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
5 quae cum vidisset quoniam infirmata est et periit expectatio eius tulit unum de leunculis suis leonem constituit eum
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When she saw that she waited in vain, that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.
6 qui incedebat inter leones et factus est leo didicit praedam capere et homines devorare
6
He prowled among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey; he devoured men,
7 didicit viduas facere et civitates eorum in desertum adducere et desolata est terra et plenitudo eius a voce rugitus illius
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and seized their widows. He laid waste their cities, and the land was appalled and all who were in it at the sound of his roaring.
8 et convenerunt adversum eum gentes undique de provinciis et expanderunt super eum rete suum in vulneribus earum captus est
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Then the nations set against him from provinces on every side; they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.
9 et miserunt eum in caveam in catenis adduxerunt eum ad regem Babylonis miseruntque eum in carcerem ne audiretur vox eius ultra super montes Israhel
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With hooks they put him in a cage and brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into custody, that his voice should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel.
10 mater tua quasi vinea in sanguine tuo super aquam plantata fructus eius et frondes eius creverunt ex aquis multis
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Your mother was like a vine in a vineyard planted by the water, fruitful and full of branches by reason of abundant water.
11 et factae sunt ei virgae solidae in sceptra dominantium et exaltata est statura eius inter frondes et vidit altitudinem suam in multitudine palmitum suorum
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Its strong stems became rulers’ scepters; it towered aloft among the thick boughs; it was seen in its height with the mass of its branches.
12 et evulsa est in ira in terramque proiecta et ventus urens siccavit fructum eius marcuerunt et arefactae sunt virgae roboris eius ignis comedit eam
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But the vine was plucked up in fury, cast down to the ground; the east wind dried up its fruit; they were stripped off and withered. As for its strong stem, fire consumed it.
13 et nunc transplantata est in desertum in terra invia et sitienti
13
Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.
14 et egressus est ignis de virga ramorum eius qui fructum eius comedit et non fuit in ea virga fortis sceptrum dominantium planctus est et erit in planctum
14
And fire has gone out from the stem of its shoots, has consumed its fruit, so that there remains in it no strong stem, no scepter for ruling. This is a lamentation and has become a lamentation.
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