2 and say,
‘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 abrought him with hooks
To the land of Egypt.
5 Then she saw, as she waited,
That her hope was lost,
So she took another of her cubs
And made him a young lion.
6 And he awalked about among the lions;
He became a young lion;
He learned to tear his prey;
He devoured men.
7 He knew how to destroy their fortified towers
And laid waste their cities;
And the land was in desolation, as well as its fullness
Because of the sound of his roaring.
8 Then anations put themselves against him
All around from their provinces,
And they spread their net over him;
He was captured in their pit.
9 aThey put him in a cage with hooks
And bbrought him to the king of Babylon;
They brought him in hunting nets
So that his voice would be heard no more
On the mountains of Israel.