‘^[a]What was your mother?
A lioness among lions!
She lay down among young lions,
She reared her cubs.
³ ‘When 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 ‘When she saw, as she waited,
That her hope was lost,
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.