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: How was thy mother a lioness; among lions she couched, in the midst of the young lions she reared 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 Then the nations assembled against 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 was disappointed, 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 castles, 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 cried out 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; that they might bring him into strongholds, so that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.

10 Thy mother was like a vine, in thy likeness, planted by the waters; she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

11 And she had strong rods to be sceptres for them that bore rule; and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she was seen in her height with the multitude of her tendrils.

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 off and withered, the fire consumed her.

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

14 And fire is gone out of the rod of her branches, it hath devoured her fruit, so that there is in her no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule.' This is a lamentation, and it was for a lamentation.