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19:1 "As for you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, 19:2 and say, 'What was your mother? A lioness among lions! She lay down among young lions, She reared her cubs. 19:3 'When she brought up one of her cubs, He became a lion, And he learned to tear [his] prey; He devoured men. 19:4 'Then nations heard about him; He was captured in their pit, And they brought him with hooks To the land of Egypt. 19:5 'When she saw, as she waited, [That] her hope was lost, She took another of her cubs And made him a young lion. 19:6 'And he walked about among the lions; He became a young lion, He learned to tear [his] prey; He devoured men. 19:7 'And he destroyed their fortified towers And laid waste their cities; And the land and its fulness were appalled Because of the sound of his roaring. 19:8 'Then nations set against him On every side from [their] provinces, And they spread their net over him; He was captured in their pit. 19:9 'And they put him in a cage with hooks And brought him to the king of Babylon; They brought him in hunting nets So that his voice should be heard no more On the mountains of Israel. 19:10 'Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, Planted by the waters; It was fruitful and full of branches Because of abundant waters. 19:11 'And it had strong branches [fit] for scepters of rulers, And its height was raised above the clouds So that it was seen in its height with the mass of its branches. 19:12 'But it was plucked up in fury; It was cast down to the ground; And the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branch was torn off So that it withered; The fire consumed it. 19:13 'And now it is planted in the wilderness, In a dry and thirsty land. 19:14 'And fire has gone out from [its] branch; It has consumed its shoots [and] fruit, So that there is not in it a strong branch, A scepter to rule.'" This is a lamentation, and has become a lamentation.