2 And say What is thy mother A lioness she lay down among lions she nourished her whelps among young lions

3 And she brought up one of her whelps it became a young lion and it learned to catch the prey it devoured men

4 The nations also heard of him he was taken in their pit and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt

5 Now when she saw that she had waited and her hope was lost then she took another of her whelps and made him a young lion

6 And he went up and down among the lions he became a young lion and learned to catch the prey and devoured men

7 And he knew their desolate palaces and he laid waste their cities and the land was desolate and the fulness thereof by the noise of his roaring

8 Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces and spread their net over him he was taken in their pit

9 And they put him in ward in chains and brought him to the king of Babylon they brought him into holds that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel

10 Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood __ planted by the waters she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters

11 And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule and her stature was exalted among the thick branches and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches

12 But she was plucked up in fury she was cast down to the ground and the east wind dried up her fruit her strong rods were broken and withered the fire consumed them

13 And now she is planted in the wilderness in a dry and thirsty ground

14 And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches which hath devoured her fruit so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule This is a lamentation and shall be for a lamentation