19As for you, raise up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,H5375H7015H5387H34782and say: What a lioness was your mother among lions! She lay down among young lions, rearing her cubs.H559H517H3833H7257H738H7235H1482H8432H37153She raised up one of her cubs; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey; he devoured humans.H5927H259H1482H3715H3925H2963H2964H398H1204The nations sounded an alarm against him; he was caught in their pit; and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.H1471H8085H8610H7845H935H2397H776H47145When she saw that she was thwarted, that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.H7200H3176H8615H6H3947H259H1482H7760H37156He prowled among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey; he devoured people.H1980H8432H738H3715H3925H2963H2964H398H1207And he ravaged their strongholds, and laid waste their towns; the land was appalled, and all in it, at the sound of his roaring.H3045H490H2717H5892H776H3456H4393H6963H75818The nations set upon him from the provinces all around; they spread their net over him; he was caught in their pit.H1471H5414H5439H4082H6566H7568H8610H78459With 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.H5414H5474H2397H935H4428H894H935H4685H6963H8085H2022H347810Your mother was like a vine in a vineyard transplanted by the water, fruitful and full of branches from abundant water.H517H1612H1818H1818H8362H4325H6509H6058H7227H432511Its strongest stem became a ruler's scepter; it towered aloft among the thick boughs; it stood out in its height with its mass of branches.H5797H4294H7626H4910H6967H1361H5688H7200H1363H7230H180812But it was plucked up in fury, 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.H5428H2534H7993H776H6921H7307H3001H6529H5797H4294H6561H3001H784H39813Now it is transplanted into the wilderness, into a dry and thirsty land.H8362H4057H6723H6772H77614And fire has gone out from its stem, 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.H784H3318H4294H905H398H6529H5797H4294H7626H4910H7015H7015
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