¹너는 이스라엘 방백들을 위하여 애가를 지어

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

²부르기를 네 어미는 무엇이냐 암사자라 그가 사자들 가운데 엎드리어 젊은 사자 중에서 그 새끼를 기르는데

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

³그 새끼 하나를 키우매 젊은 사자가 되어 식물 움키기를 배워 사람을 삼키매

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

⁴이방이 듣고 함정으로 그를 잡아 갈고리로 꿰어끌고 애굽 땅으로 간지라

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

⁵암사자가 기다리다가 소망이 끊어진 줄을 알고 그 새끼 하나를 또 취하여 젊은 사자가 되게 하니

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.

⁶젊은 사자가 되매 여러 사자 가운데 왕래하며 식물 움키기를 배워 사람을 삼키며

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

⁷그의 궁실들을 헐고 성읍들을 훼파하니 그 우는 소리로 인하여 땅과 그 가득한 것이 황무한지라

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.

⁸이방이 둘려 있는 지방에서 그를 치러 와서 그의 위에 그물을 치고 함정에 잡아

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

⁹갈고리로 꿰고 철롱에 넣어 끌고 바벨론 왕에게 이르렀나니 그를 옥에 가두어서 그 소리로 다시 이스라엘 산에 들리지 않게 하려 함이니라

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.

¹⁰네 피의 어미는 물 가에 심긴 포도나무 같아서 물이 많으므로 실과가 많고 가지가 무성하며

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.

¹¹그 가지들은 견강하여 권세 잡은 자의 홀이 될만한데 그 하나의 키가 굵은 가지 가운데서 높았으며 많은 가지 가운데서 뛰어나서 보이다가

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.

¹²분노 중에 뽑혀서 땅에 던짐을 당하매 그 실과는 동풍에 마르고 그 견강한 가지들은 꺾이고 말라 불에 탔더니

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.

¹³이제는 광야,메마르고 가물이 든 땅에 심긴바 되고

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

¹⁴불이 그 가지 중 하나에서부터 나와서 그 실과를 태우니 권세 잡은 자의 홀이 될만한 견강한 가지가 없도다 이것이 애가라 후에도 애가가 되리라

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.