Chapter 19
1 "Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel ,
2 and say, ‘ What was your mother? A lioness . She couched among lions , in the middle of the young lions she nourished her cubs .
3 She brought up one of her cubs . He became a young lion . He learned to catch the prey . He devoured men.
4 The nations also heard of him . He was taken in their pit ; and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt .
5 "‘ Now when she saw that she had waited , and her hope was lost, then she took another of her cubs , and made him a young lion .
6 He went up and down among the lions . He became a young lion . He learned to catch the prey . He devoured men .
7 He knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities . The land was desolate with its fullness , because of the noise of his roaring .
8 Then the nations attacked him on every side from the provinces . They 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 into strongholds, so that his voice should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel .
10 "‘ Your mother was like a vine in your blood , planted by the waters . It was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters .
11 It had strong branches for the scepters of those who ruled . Their stature was exalted among the thick boughs . They were seen in their height with the multitude of their 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 branches were broken off and withered . The fire consumed them .
13 Now it is planted in the wilderness , in a dry and thirsty land .
14 Fire has gone out of its branches . It has devoured its fruit , so that there is in it no strong branch to be a scepter to rule .’ This is a lamentation , and shall be for a lamentation ."