¹A ti, sine čovječji, protuži tužaljkom za knezovima izraelskim.

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

²Reci: Što bijaše tvoja mati? Lavica među lavovima, ležala je među lavićima, hraneći mladunčad svoju.

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

³I othrani jedno mlado, koje lavom posta. Naučiv se plijen derati, stade ljude proždirati!

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

⁴Narodi se protiv njega udružiše, lav upade u jamu njihovu, na lancu ga odvedoše u zemlju egipatsku.

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

⁵A kad mati vidje da uzalud čeka i da joj nada propade, uze drugo mlado i od njega lava učini.

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.

⁶Živeć' tako među lavovima, i on lavom posta. Naučiv se plijen derati, stade ljude proždirati,

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

⁷utvrde im rušiti, pustošiti gradove. Uzdrhta zemlja i sve na njoj od silne rike njegove.

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.

⁸Ali se ljudi iz okolnih mjesta protiv njega podigoše i zamke mu postaviše; i lav se uhvati u jamu njihovu.

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

⁹Okovana u kavez ga zatvoriše, odvedoše kralju babilonskom, ondje ga u kulu zatočiše, da mu se više ne čuje rika po gorama izraelskim.

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.

¹⁰Mati tvoja bješe kao loza pokraj vode zasađena, rodna i granata od obilja vode!

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.

¹¹Imala je jaku granu za palicu vladalačku: uzdiže se nad krošnju, naočita visinom, mnoštvom grančica.

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.

¹²Al' u gnjevu bješe iščupana i na zemlju bačena. Istočnjak joj rod sasuši: polomi se i uvenu jaka grana njezina i vatra je svu proguta.

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.

¹³U pustinju bje presađena, u zemlju suhu, bezvodnu.

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

¹⁴Al' liznu oganj iz pruta njezina i spali joj grane i plodove! I nema više na njoj grane jake za palicu vladalačku." To je, evo tužaljka, i ostat će tužaljka.

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.