¹Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

¹A ty pozdvihni trúchlospev na kniežatá Izraelove

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

²a povieš: Čo tvoja mater ľvica? Odpočívajúc líhala medzi ľvami, medzi mladými ľvami vychovávala svoje ľvíčatá.

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

³A vychovala jedno zo svojich ľvíčat; bol to mladý lev a naučil sa lúpežiť; žrával ľudí.

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

⁴A počuly o ňom národy; lapený bol do ich jamy, a doviedli ho za obrúčky do Egyptskej zeme.

⁵Now 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.

⁵A keď videla ľvica, že darmo čaká, a že zahynula jej nádej, vzala jedno zo svojich ľvíčat, urobila ho mladým ľvom.

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

⁶A chodil si medzi ľvami a stal sa z neho mladý lev; ale sa naučil lúpežiť a žrával ľudí;

⁷And 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.

⁷poznal svoje vdovy a spustošil ich mestá, takže spustla zem i jej náplň od hlasu jeho revu.

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

⁸Preto nastavily na neho národy naokolo z krajín a rozostrely na neho svoju sieť; lapený bol do ich jamy.

⁹And 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.

⁹Dali ho do klietky na obrúčky a doviedli ho k babylonskému kráľovi, odviedli ho do pevností, aby nebolo viacej počuť jeho hlasu na vrchoch Izraelových.

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

¹⁰Tvoja mater bola jako vinič za tvojho pokoja, zasadený nad vodami; úrodný a haluznatý bol pre mnohé vody.

¹¹And 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.

¹¹A mal silné prúty na berly panovníkov, a jeho postava sa vypäla vysoko medzi oblaky, a bolo ho vidieť pre jeho vysokosť, pre množstvo jeho vetiev.

¹²But 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.

¹²Ale bol vytrhnutý v prchlivosti a hodený na zem, a východný vietor usušil jeho ovocie; jeho silné prúty sa vylámaly a uschly; oheň to strávil.

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

¹³A teraz je zasadený na púšti, vo vypráhlej zemi žíznivej.

¹⁴And 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.

¹⁴Krome toho vyšiel oheň z prúta jeho konárov; strávil jeho ovocie, a nie je už na ňom silného prúta na berlu panovať. Je to trúchlospev a bude na trúchlospev.