1 Take up now a song of grief for the ruler of Israel, and say,
2 What was your mother? Like a she-lion among lions, stretched out among the young lions she gave food to her little ones.
3 And one of her little ones came to growth under her care, and became a young lion, learning to go after beasts for his food; and he took men for his meat.
4 And the nations had news of him; he was taken in the hole they had made: and, pulling him with hooks, they took him into the land of Egypt.
5 Now when she saw that her hope was made foolish and gone, she took another of her little ones and made him into a young lion.
6 And he went up and down among the lions and became a young lion, learning to go after beasts for his food; and he took men for his meat.
7 And he sent destruction on their widows and made waste their towns; and the land and everything in it became waste because of the loud sound of his voice.
8 Then the nations came against him from the kingdoms round about: their net was stretched over him and he was taken in the hole they had made.
9 They made him a prisoner with hooks, and took him to the king of Babylon; they put him in the strong place so that his voice might be sounding no longer on the mountains of Israel.
10 Your mother was in comparison like a vine, planted by the waters: she was fertile and full of branches because of the great waters.
11 And she had a strong rod for a rod of authority for the rulers, and it became tall among the clouds and it was seen lifted up among the number of its branches.
12 But she was uprooted in burning wrath, and made low on the earth; the east wind came, drying her up, and her branches were broken off; her strong rod became dry, the fire made a meal of it.
13 And now she is planted in the waste land, in a dry and unwatered country.
14 And fire has gone out from her rod, causing the destruction of her branches, so that there is no strong rod in her to be the ruler's rod of authority. This is a song of grief, and it was for a song of grief.
1 "你当为以色列的众领袖作一首哀歌，
2 说： ‘你的母亲是什么？是狮子群中的母狮， 它卧在少壮狮子群中， 养育它的小狮子。
3 它养大其中一只小狮子， 这幼狮成了一只少壮的狮子， 学会了撕碎猎物， 把人吃掉。
4 列国听见了， 就把它困在他们的坑中； 他们用钩子把它带到埃及地去。
5 母狮见自己所等候的落空了， 所希望的幻灭了， 就从它的小狮子中另取出一只， 使它成为少壮的狮子。
6 它在狮子群中行走； 它已成了一只少壮的狮子， 它学会了撕碎猎物， 把人吃掉。
7 它拆毁了他们的城堡， 使他们的城市荒凉； 因它吼叫的声音， 地和其中所充满的都惊恐。
8 于是四围的列国从各地来攻击它， 把他们的网撒在它身上， 把它困在他们的坑中。
9 他们把它放进笼里， 用钩子带到巴比伦王那里， 囚在狱中， 使它的声音在以色列众山上不再听见。
10 "‘你的母亲像葡萄园里的一棵葡萄树， 栽种在水边； 因为水源充足， 结果累累、枝叶茂盛。
11 它有粗壮的树枝可作掌权者的杖； 它树身高大， 超乎其他茂密枝叶之上； 因为它树身高大， 枝子众多， 远远就可以看见。
12 但这葡萄树因 神的烈怒被拔起， 摔在地上； 东风使它的果子枯干散掉， 粗壮的树枝枯槁， 被火吞灭。
13 现在它被栽种在旷野， 在干旱无水之地。
14 有火从树枝中的一根发出， 吞灭树的果子， 以致树上再没有粗壮的树枝， 可以作掌权者的杖。’这是一首哀歌， 是一首流行的哀歌。"