What was your mother?
    A lioness among lions!
She lay down among young lions;
    she nourished her whelps.
³ When she brought up one of her whelps,
    he became a lion
and learned to catch his prey;
    he devoured men.
⁴ The nations also heard of him;
    he was taken in their pit,
and they brought him with chains
    to the land of Egypt.

⁵ Now when she saw as she had waited
    that her hope was lost,
then she took another of her whelps
    and made him a young lion.
⁶ 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 palaces,
    and he laid waste their cities;
and the land and its fullness
    were appalled by the noise of his roaring.
⁸ Then the nations set against him
    on every side from their 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.

¹⁰ Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard,
    planted by the waters;
it was fruitful and full of branches
    by reason of many waters.
¹¹ It had strong rods
    for the scepters of those who rule.
And its stature
    was exalted above the clouds,
so it appeared in its height
    with the multitude of its 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 rod was broken and it withered;
the fire consumed it.
¹³ Now it is planted in the wilderness,
    in a dry and thirsty ground.
¹⁴ Fire has gone out from its branch;
    it has devoured its shoots and fruit,
so that there is no strong rod in it,
    a scepter to rule.