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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1"Take up a lament concerning the princes of Israel |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2and say: "'What a lioness was your mother among the lions! She lay down among them and reared her cubs. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3She brought up one of her cubs, and he became a strong lion. He learned to tear the prey and he became a man-eater. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4The nations heard about him, and he was trapped in their pit. They led him with hooks to the land of Egypt. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"'When she saw her hope unfulfilled, her expectation gone, she took another of her cubs and made him a strong lion. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6He prowled among the lions, for he was now a strong lion. He learned to tear the prey and he became a man-eater. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7He broke down their strongholds and devastated their towns. The land and all who were in it were terrified by his roaring. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Then the nations came against him, those from regions round about. They spread their net for him, and he was trapped in their pit. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9With hooks they pulled him into a cage and brought him to the king of Babylon. They put him in prison, so his roar was heard no longer on the mountains of Israel. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"'Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard planted by the water; it was fruitful and full of branches because of abundant water. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Its branches were strong, fit for a ruler's scepter. It towered high above the thick foliage, conspicuous for its height and for its many branches. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12But it was uprooted in fury and thrown to the ground. The east wind made it shrivel, it was stripped of its fruit; its strong branches withered and fire consumed them. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Now it is planted in the desert, in a dry and thirsty land. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Fire spread from one of its main branches and consumed its fruit. No strong branch is left on it fit for a ruler's scepter.' "This is a lament and is to be used as a lament." |
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