¹اما انت فارفع مرثاة على رؤساء اسرائيل

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

²وقل. ما هي امك. لبوة ربضت بين الأسود وربّت جراءها بين الاشبال.

²and say, What was thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps in the midst of the young lions.

³ربّت واحدا من جرائها فصار شبلا وتعلم افتراس الفريسة. اكل الناس.

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

⁴فلما سمعت به الامم أخذ في حفرتهم فأتوا به بخزائم الى ارض مصر.

⁴And the nations heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with nose-rings into the land of Egypt.

⁵فلما رأت انها قد انتظرت وهلك رجاؤها اخذت آخر من جرائها وصيرته شبلا.

⁵And when she saw that she had waited [and] her hope was lost, she took another of her whelps, [and] made him a young lion.

⁶فتمشى بين الأسود. صار شبلا وتعلم افتراس الفريسة. اكل الناس.

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

⁷وعرف قصورهم وخرب مدنهم فاقفرت الارض وملؤها من صوت زمجرته.

⁷And he knew their [desolate] palaces, and he laid waste their cities, so that the land was desolate, and all it contained, by the noise of his roaring.

⁸فاتفق عليه الامم من كل جهة من البلدان وبسطوا عليه شبكتهم فأخذ في حفرتهم

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

⁹فوضعوه في قفص بخزائم واحضروه الى ملك بابل وأتوا به الى القلاع لكيلا يسمع صوته بعد على جبال اسرائيل

⁹And they put him in a cage with nose-rings, 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.

¹⁰امك ككرمة مثلك غرست على المياه. كانت مثمرة مفرخة من كثرة المياه.

¹⁰Thy mother was as a vine, in thy rest, planted by the waters: it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

¹¹وكان لها فروع قوية لقضبان المتسلطين وارتفع ساقها بين الاغصان الغبياء وظهرت في ارتفاعها بكثرة زراجينها.

¹¹And it had strong rods for sceptres of them that bear rule, and its stature was exalted between the thick boughs; and it was conspicuous by its height with the multitude of its branches.

¹²لكنها اقتلعت بغيظ وطرحت على الارض وقد يبّست ريح شرقية ثمرها. قصفت ويبست فروعها القوية. اكلتها النار.

¹²But 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 and withered; the fire consumed them.

¹³والآن غرست في القفر في ارض يابسة عطشانة.

¹³And now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground:

¹⁴وخرجت نار من فرع عصّيها اكلت ثمرها. وليس لها الآن فرع قوي لقضيب تسلّط. هي رثاء وتكون لمرثاة

¹⁴and a fire is gone out of a rod of its branches, [which] hath devoured its fruit; so that it hath no strong rod to be a sceptre for ruling. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.