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

¹Ti pa zapoj žalostinko nad knezi Izraelovimi

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

²in reci: Kaj je bila mati tvoja? Levinja; med levi je ležala, sredi levičev je redila mladino svojo.

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

³In vzredila je enega mladičev svojih, ta je postal mlad lev in se je navadil plen loviti, požiral je ljudi.

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

⁴In slišali so o njem narodi; ujet je bil v njih jami in peljali so ga z obroči v nosnicah v deželo Egiptovsko.

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.

⁵In ko je videla, da zaman čaka, da je izginila nada njena, vzame drugega mladičev svojih in stori iz njega mladega leva.

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

⁶Ta je hodil med levi in postal mlad lev in se je navadil plen loviti, požiral je ljudi.

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.

⁷In podiral je njih palače in pustošil njih mesta; in opustošena je bila dežela in kar je bilo v njej od glasu njegovega rjovenja.

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

⁸Tedaj so se postavili zoper njega narodi iz sosednjih pokrajin in so razpeli mrežo nad njim, v njih jami je bil ujet.

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.

⁹In dejali so ga z obroči v nosnicah v kletko ter ga pripeljali h kralju babilonskemu; spravili so ga v trdnjavo, da bi se ne slišal več glas njegov na gorah Izraelovih.

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.

¹⁰Mati tvoja je bila kakor vinska trta, kakor ti pri vodi zasajena; rodovitna je bila in bogata z mladikami, ker je rasla ob obilih vodah.

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.

¹¹In je zaredila močne veje, pripravne za palice vladarjem, in nje rast se je visoko vzpenjala med košatimi mladicami, in daleč jo je bilo videti zaradi visokosti njene, zaradi mnogih mladik njenih.

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.

¹²A izruvana je bila v togoti, na tla vržena, in vzhodni veter je posušil njen sad: močne veje njene so se zlomile in usahnile, ogenj jih je požgal.

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

¹³In sedaj je zasajena v puščavi, v suhi in žejni zemlji.In ogenj je švignil iz mladičja njenih vej in požrl nje sad, da ni na njej nobene močne veje, pripravne za palico vladarjem. To je žalostinka in bodi za žalostinko.

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.

¹⁴In ogenj je švignil iz mladičja njenih vej in požrl nje sad, da ni na njej nobene močne veje, pripravne za palico vladarjem. To je žalostinka in bodi za žalostinko.