⁷ A ^(A)lion has gone up from his thicket,
And a ^(B)destroyer of nations has set out;
He has gone out from his place
To ^(C)make your land a desolation.
Your cities will be turned into ruins
Without inhabitant.

‘^[a]What was your mother?
A lioness among lions!
She lay down among young lions;
She reared her cubs.
³ So she brought up one of her cubs;
He became a lion,
And he learned to tear his prey;
He devoured men.
⁴ Then nations heard about him;
He was captured in their pit,
And they ^(A)brought him with hooks
To the land of Egypt.
⁵ Then she saw, as she waited,
That her hope was lost,
So she took ^[b]another of her cubs
And made him a young lion.
⁶ And he ^(B)walked about among the lions;
He became a young lion;
He learned to tear his prey;
He devoured men.