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As for you, raise up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
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and say: What a lioness was your mother among lions! She lay down among young lions, rearing her cubs.
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She raised up one of her cubs; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey; he devoured humans.
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The nations sounded an alarm against him; he was caught in their pit; and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
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When she saw that she was thwarted, that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.
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He prowled among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey; he devoured people.
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And he ravaged their strongholds, and laid waste their towns; the land was appalled, and all in it, at the sound of his roaring.
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The nations set upon him from the provinces all around; they spread their net over him; 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 Babylon; they brought him into custody, so that his voice should be heard no more on the mountains of Israel.
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Your mother was like a vine in a vineyard transplanted by the water, fruitful and full of branches from abundant water.