¹⁶ “This is the ^(A)lamentation
With which they shall lament her;
The daughters of the nations shall lament her;
They shall lament for her, for Egypt,
And for all her multitude,”
Says the Lord God.’ ”

^(B)‘You are like a young lion among the nations,
And ^(C)you are like a monster in the seas,
^(D)Bursting forth in your rivers,
Troubling the waters with your feet,
And ^(E)fouling their rivers.

“How you have perished,
O one inhabited by seafaring men,
O renowned city,
Who was ^(B)strong at sea,
She and her inhabitants,
Who caused their terror to be on all her inhabitants!

“Consider and call for ^(A)the mourning women,
That they may come;
And send for skillful wailing women,
That they may come.

“Should Abner die as a ^(A)fool dies?
³⁴ Your hands were not bound
Nor your feet put into fetters;
As a man falls before wicked men, so you fell.”