| New American Standard Bible 1995 | King James Bible |
| 1"As for you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel | 1Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, |
| 2and say, 'What was your mother? A lioness among lions! She lay down among young lions, She reared her cubs. | 2And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions. |
| 3When she brought up one of her cubs, He became a lion, And he learned to tear his prey; He devoured men. | 3And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men. |
| 4'Then nations heard about him; He was captured in their pit, And they brought him with hooks To the land of Egypt. | 4The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt. |
| 5When she saw, as she waited, That her hope was lost, She took another of her cubs And made him a young lion. | 5Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion. |
| 6And he walked about among the lions; He became a young lion, He learned to tear his prey; He devoured men. | 6And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men. |
| 7'He destroyed their fortified towers And laid waste their cities; And the land and its fullness were appalled Because of the sound of his roaring. | 7And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring. |
| 8Then nations set against him On every side from their provinces, And they spread their net over him; He was captured in their pit. | 8Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit. |
| 9'They put him in a cage with hooks And brought him to the king of Babylon; They brought him in hunting nets So that his voice would be heard no more On the mountains of Israel. | 9And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel. |
| 10'Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, Planted by the waters; It was fruitful and full of branches Because of abundant waters. | 10Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters. |
| 11And it had strong branches fit for scepters of rulers, And its height was raised above the clouds So that it was seen in its height with the mass of its branches. | 11And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches. |
| 12'But it was plucked up in fury; It was cast down to the ground; And the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branch was torn off So that it withered; The fire consumed it. | 12But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them. |
| 13'And now it is planted in the wilderness, In a dry and thirsty land. | 13And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground. |
| 14And fire has gone out from its branch; It has consumed its shoots and fruit, So that there is not in it a strong branch, A scepter to rule.'" This is a lamentation, and has become a lamentation. | 14And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation. |
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