‘What is your mother? A lioness:
She lay down among the lions;
Among the young lions she nourished her cubs.
³ She brought up one of her cubs,
And ^(B)he became a young lion;
He learned to catch prey,
And he devoured men.
⁴ The nations also heard of him;
He was trapped in their pit,
And they brought him with chains to the land of ^(C)Egypt.

⁵ ‘When she saw that she waited, that her hope was lost,
She took ^(D)another of her cubs and made him a young lion.
^6 (E)He roved among the lions,
And ^(F)became a young lion;
He learned to catch prey;
He devoured men.
^7 [a]He knew their desolate places,
And laid waste their cities;
The land with its fullness was desolated
By the noise of his roaring.
^8 (G)Then the nations set against him from the provinces on every side,
And spread their net over him;
^(H)He was trapped in their pit.
^9 (I)They put him in a cage with ^[b]chains,
And brought him to the king of Babylon;
They brought him in nets,
That his voice should no longer be heard on ^(J)the mountains of Israel.

¹⁰ ‘Your mother was ^(K)like a vine in your ^[c]bloodline,
Planted by the waters,
^(L)Fruitful and full of branches
Because of many waters.
¹¹ She had strong branches for scepters of rulers.
^(M)She towered in stature above the thick branches,
And was seen in her height amid the ^[d]dense foliage.
¹² But she was ^(N)plucked up in fury,
She was cast down to the ground,
And the ^(O)east wind dried her fruit.
Her strong branches were broken and withered;
The fire consumed them.
¹³ And now she is planted in the wilderness,
In a dry and thirsty land.
^14 (P)Fire has come out from a rod of her branches
And devoured her fruit,
So that she has no strong branch—a scepter for ruling.’ ”