1 Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, 2 And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions. 3 And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men. 4 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt. 5 Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion. 6 And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men. 7 And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring. 8 Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit. 9 And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.
10 ¶ Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters. 11 And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches. 12 But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them. 13 And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground. 14 And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
1 et tu adsume planctum super principes Israhel
2 et dices
quare mater tua leaena inter leones cubavit
in medio leunculorum enutrivit catulos suos
3 et eduxit unum de leunculis suis leo factus est
et didicit capere praedam hominemque comedere
4 et audierunt de eo gentes
et non absque vulneribus suis ceperunt eum
et adduxerunt eum in catenis in terram Aegypti
5 quae cum vidisset quoniam infirmata est et periit expectatio eius
tulit unum de leunculis suis leonem constituit eum
6 qui incedebat inter leones et factus est leo
didicit praedam capere et homines devorare
7 didicit viduas facere et civitates eorum in desertum adducere
et desolata est terra et plenitudo eius a voce rugitus illius
8 et convenerunt adversum eum gentes undique de provinciis
et expanderunt super eum rete suum
in vulneribus earum captus est
9 et miserunt eum in caveam in catenis
adduxerunt eum ad regem Babylonis miseruntque eum in carcerem
ne audiretur vox eius ultra super montes Israhel
10 mater tua quasi vinea in sanguine tuo super aquam plantata
fructus eius et frondes eius creverunt ex aquis multis
11 et factae sunt ei virgae solidae in sceptra dominantium
et exaltata est statura eius inter frondes
et vidit altitudinem suam in multitudine palmitum suorum
12 et evulsa est in ira in terramque proiecta
et ventus urens siccavit fructum eius
marcuerunt et arefactae sunt virgae roboris eius
ignis comedit eam
13 et nunc transplantata est in desertum in terra invia et sitienti
14 et egressus est ignis de virga ramorum eius
qui fructum eius comedit
et non fuit in ea virga fortis sceptrum dominantium
planctus est et erit in planctum