| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New Living Translation |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1“Sing this funeral song for the princes of Israel: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2“What is your mother? A lioness among lions! She lay down among the young lions and reared her cubs. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3She raised one of her cubs to become a strong young lion. He learned to hunt and devour prey, and he became a man-eater. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Then the nations heard about him, and he was trapped in their pit. They led him away with hooks to the land of Egypt. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5“When the lioness saw that her hopes for him were gone, she took another of her cubs and taught him to be a strong young lion. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6He prowled among the other lions and stood out among them in his strength. He learned to hunt and devour prey, and he, too, became a man-eater. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7He demolished fortresses and destroyed their towns and cities. Their farms were desolated, and their crops were destroyed. The land and its people trembled in fear when they heard him roar. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Then the armies of the nations attacked him, surrounding him from every direction. They threw a net over him and captured him in their pit. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9With hooks, they dragged him into a cage and brought him before the king of Babylon. They held him in captivity, so his voice could never again be heard on the mountains of Israel. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10“Your mother was like a vine planted by the water’s edge. It had lush, green foliage because of the abundant water. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Its branches became strong— strong enough to be a ruler’s scepter. It grew very tall, towering above all others. It stood out because of its height and its many lush branches. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12But the vine was uprooted in fury and thrown down to the ground. The desert wind dried up its fruit and tore off its strong branches, so that it withered and was destroyed by fire. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Now the vine is transplanted to the wilderness, where the ground is hard and dry. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14A fire has burst out from its branches and devoured its fruit. Its remaining limbs are not strong enough to be a ruler’s scepter. “This is a funeral song, and it will be used in a funeral.” |
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