¹ואתה שא קינה אל נשיאי ישראל׃

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

²ואמרת מה אמך לביא בין אריות רבצה בתוך כפרים רבתה גוריה׃

²and say, What was your mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her cubs.

³ותעל אחד מגריה כפיר היה וילמד לטרף טרף אדם אכל׃

³She brought up one of her cubs: he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.

⁴וישמעו אליו גוים בשחתם נתפש ויבאהו בחחים אל ארץ מצרים׃

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

⁵ותרא כי נוחלה אבדה תקותה ותקח אחד מגריה כפיר שמתהו׃

⁵Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her cubs, and made him a young lion.

⁶ויתהלך בתוך אריות כפיר היה וילמד לטרף טרף אדם אכל׃

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

⁷וידע אלמנותיו ועריהם החריב ותשם ארץ ומלאה מקול שאגתו׃

⁷He knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and its fullness, because of the noise of his roaring.

⁸ויתנו עליו גוים סביב ממדינות ויפרשו עליו רשתם בשחתם נתפש׃

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

⁹ויתנהו בסוגר בחחים ויבאהו אל מלך בבל יבאהו במצדות למען לא ישמע קולו עוד אל הרי ישראל׃

⁹They put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into strongholds, that his voice should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel.

¹⁰אמך כגפן בדמך על מים שתולה פריה וענפה היתה ממים רבים׃

¹⁰Your mother was like a vine, in your blood, planted by the waters: it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

¹¹ויהיו לה מטות עז אל שבטי משלים ותגבה קומתו על בין עבתים וירא בגבהו ברב דליתיו׃

¹¹It had strong rods for the scepters of those who bore rule, and their stature was exalted among the thick boughs, and they were seen in their height with the multitude of their branches.

¹²ותתש בחמה לארץ השלכה ורוח הקדים הוביש פריה התפרקו ויבשו מטה עזה אש אכלתהו׃

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 off and withered; the fire consumed them.

¹³ועתה שתולה במדבר בארץ ציה וצמא׃

¹³Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.

¹⁴ותצא אש ממטה בדיה פריה אכלה ולא היה בה מטה עז שבט למשול קינה היא ותהי לקינה׃

¹⁴Fire is gone out of the rods of its branches, it has devoured its fruit, so that there is in it no strong rod to be a scepter to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.