1 E tu levanta uma lamentação sobre os príncipes de Israel 2 e dize: Quem é tua mãe? Uma leoa entre leões, a qual, deitada entre os leõezinhos, criou os seus filhotes. 3 Criou um dos seus filhotinhos, o qual veio a ser leãozinho, e aprendeu a apanhar a presa, e devorou homens. 4 As nações ouviram falar dele, e foi ele apanhado na cova que elas fizeram e levado com ganchos para a terra do Egito. 5 Vendo a leoa frustrada e perdida a sua esperança, tomou outro dos seus filhotes e o fez leãozinho. 6 Este, andando entre os leões, veio a ser um leãozinho, e aprendeu a apanhar a presa, e devorou homens. 7 Aprendeu a fazer viúvas e a tornar desertas as cidades deles; ficaram estupefatos a terra e seus habitantes, ao ouvirem o seu rugido. 8 Então, se ajuntaram contra ele as gentes das províncias em roda, estenderam sobre ele a rede, e foi apanhado na cova que elas fizeram. 9 Com gancho, meteram-no em jaula, e o levaram ao rei da Babilônia, e fizeram-no entrar nos lugares fortes, para que se não ouvisse mais a sua voz nos montes de Israel.

10 Tua mãe, de sua natureza, era qual videira plantada junto às águas; plantada à borda, ela frutificou e se encheu de ramos, por causa das muitas águas. 11 Tinha galhos fortes para cetros de dominadores; elevou-se a sua estatura entre os espessos ramos, e foi vista na sua altura com a multidão deles. 12 Mas foi arrancada com furor e lançada por terra, e o vento oriental secou-lhe o fruto; quebraram-se e secaram os seus fortes galhos, e o fogo os consumiu. 13 Agora, está plantada no deserto, numa terra seca e sedenta. 14 Dos galhos dos seus ramos saiu fogo que consumiu o seu fruto, de maneira que já não há nela galho forte que sirva de cetro para dominar. Esta é uma lamentação e ficará servindo de lamentação.

1 Moreover, take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, 2 and say, What was thy mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her whelps. 3 And she brought up one of her whelps: he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men. 4 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks 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 he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men. 7 And he knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, because of the noise of his roaring. 8 Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces; and they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit. 9 And they put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into strongholds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.

10 Thy mother was like a vine, in thy blood, planted by the waters: it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters. 11 And it had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and their stature was exalted among the thick boughs, and they were seen in their height with the multitude of their branches. 12 But it was plucked up in fury, it was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit: its strong rods were broken off and withered; the fire consumed them. 13 And now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land. 14 And fire is gone out of the rods of its branches, it hath devoured its fruit, so that there is in it no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.

1 "Take up a lament concerning the princes of Israel

2 and say: "'What a lioness was your mother among the lions! She lay down among them and reared her cubs.

3 She brought up one of her cubs, and he became a strong lion. He learned to tear the prey and he became a man-eater.

4 The nations heard about him, and he was trapped in their pit. They led him with hooks to the land of Egypt.

5 "'When she saw her hope unfulfilled, her expectation gone, she took another of her cubs and made him a strong lion.

6 He prowled among the lions, for he was now a strong lion. He learned to tear the prey and he became a man-eater.

7 He broke down "their strongholds and devastated their towns. The land and all who were in it were terrified by his roaring.

8 Then the nations came against him, those from regions round about. They spread their net for him, and he was trapped in their pit.

9 With hooks they pulled him into a cage and brought him to the king of Babylon. They put him in prison, so his roar was heard no longer on the mountains of Israel.

10 "'Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard "planted by the water; it was fruitful and full of branches because of abundant water.

11 Its branches were strong, fit for a ruler's scepter. It towered high above the thick foliage, conspicuous for its height and for its many branches.

12 But it was uprooted in fury and thrown to the ground. The east wind made it shrivel, it was stripped of its fruit; its strong branches withered and fire consumed them.

13 Now it is planted in the desert, in a dry and thirsty land.

14 Fire spread from one of its main "branches and consumed its fruit. No strong branch is left on it fit for a ruler's scepter.' "This is a lament and is to be used as a lament."