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

¹A ty pozdvihni trúchlospev na kniežatá Izraelove

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

²a povieš: Čo tvoja mater ľvica? Odpočívajúc líhala medzi ľvami, medzi mladými ľvami vychovávala svoje ľvíčatá.

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

³A vychovala jedno zo svojich ľvíčat; bol to mladý lev a naučil sa lúpežiť; žrával ľudí.

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

⁴A počuly o ňom národy; lapený bol do ich jamy, a doviedli ho za obrúčky do Egyptskej zeme.

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.

⁵A keď videla ľvica, že darmo čaká, a že zahynula jej nádej, vzala jedno zo svojich ľvíčat, urobila ho mladým ľvom.

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

⁶A chodil si medzi ľvami a stal sa z neho mladý lev; ale sa naučil lúpežiť a žrával ľudí;

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

⁷poznal svoje vdovy a spustošil ich mestá, takže spustla zem i jej náplň od hlasu jeho revu.

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.

⁸Preto nastavily na neho národy naokolo z krajín a rozostrely na neho svoju sieť; lapený bol do ich jamy.

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.

⁹Dali ho do klietky na obrúčky a doviedli ho k babylonskému kráľovi, odviedli ho do pevností, aby nebolo viacej počuť jeho hlasu na vrchoch Izraelových.

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.

¹⁰Tvoja mater bola jako vinič za tvojho pokoja, zasadený nad vodami; úrodný a haluznatý bol pre mnohé vody.

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.

¹¹A mal silné prúty na berly panovníkov, a jeho postava sa vypäla vysoko medzi oblaky, a bolo ho vidieť pre jeho vysokosť, pre množstvo jeho vetiev.

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.

¹²Ale bol vytrhnutý v prchlivosti a hodený na zem, a východný vietor usušil jeho ovocie; jeho silné prúty sa vylámaly a uschly; oheň to strávil.

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

¹³A teraz je zasadený na púšti, vo vypráhlej zemi žíznivej.

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.

¹⁴Krome toho vyšiel oheň z prúta jeho konárov; strávil jeho ovocie, a nie je už na ňom silného prúta na berlu panovať. Je to trúchlospev a bude na trúchlospev.