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What a lioness was your mother
    among lions!
She lay down among young lions,
    rearing her cubs.
³ She raised up one of her cubs;
    he became a young lion,
and he learned to catch prey;
    he devoured humans.
⁴ The nations sounded an alarm against him;
    he was caught in their pit;
and they brought him with hooks
    to the land of Egypt.
⁵ When she saw that she was thwarted,
    that her hope was lost,
she took another of her cubs
    and made him a young lion.
⁶ He prowled among the lions;
    he became a young lion,
and he learned to catch prey;
    he devoured people.
⁷ And he ravaged their strongholds,^[a]
    and laid waste their towns;
the land was appalled, and all in it,
    at the sound of his roaring.
⁸ The nations set upon him
    from the provinces all around;
they spread their net over him;
    he was caught in their pit.
⁹ With hooks they put him in a cage,
    and brought him to the king of Babylon;
    they brought him into custody,
so that his voice should be heard no more
    on the mountains of Israel.
¹⁰ Your mother was like a vine in a vineyard^[b]
    transplanted by the water,
fruitful and full of branches
    from abundant water.
¹¹ Its strongest stem became
    a ruler's scepter;^[c]
it towered aloft
    among the thick boughs;
it stood out in its height
    with its mass of branches.
¹² But it was plucked up in fury,
    cast down to the ground;
the east wind dried it up;
    its fruit was stripped off,
its strong stem was withered;
    the fire consumed it.
¹³ Now it is transplanted into the wilderness,
    into a dry and thirsty land.
¹⁴ And fire has gone out from its stem,
    has consumed its branches and fruit,
so that there remains in it no strong stem,
    no scepter for ruling.