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"Moreover, raise a lament for the leaders of Isra'el;
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say: 'What a mother you had a lioness among lions! She lay down among young lions and reared her cubs.
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One of her cubs she singled out: he became a young lion, he learned to seize his prey, he became a man-eater.
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The nations sounded an alarm against him; and he was caught in their pit. With hooks they dragged him off to the land of Egypt.
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When she saw that she had been thwarted, that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made a young lion of him.
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He prowled among the lions, grew to be a young lion, learned to seize his prey and became a man-eater.
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He raped their widows and destroyed their cities; the land and all in it were appalled at the sound of his roaring.
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The nations set a snare for him from the provinces all around, they spread their net over him, and he was caught in their pit.
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With hooks they put him in a cage and brought him to the king of Bavel to imprison him in a fortress, so that his roar would be heard no more on the mountains of Isra'el.
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"'Your mother was like a strong grapevine planted by the water. It was fruitful and luxuriant because of the abundant water.