Holy Bible - Revised Standard Version(RSV)

19:1	And you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
19:2	and say: What a lioness was your mother among lions! She couched in the midst of young lions, rearing her whelps.
19:3	And she brought up one of her whelps;he became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey;he devoured men.
19:4	The nations sounded an alarm against him;he was taken in their pit;and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
19:5	When she saw that she was baffled, that her hope was lost, she took another of her whelps and made him a young lion.
19:6	He prowled among the lions;he became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey;he devoured men.
19:7	And he ravaged their strongholds, and laid waste their cities;and the land was appalled and all who were in it at the sound of his roaring.
19:8	Then the nations set against him snares on every side;they spread their net over him;he was taken in their pit.
19:9	With hooks they put him in a cage, and brought him to the king of Babylon;they brought him into custody, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.
19:10	Your mother was like a vine in a vineyard transplanted by the water, fruitful and full of branches by reason of abundant water.
19:11	Its strongest stem became a ruler's scepter;it towered aloft among the thick boughs;it was seen in its height with the mass of its branches.
19:12	But the vine 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.
19:13	Now it is transplanted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.
19:14	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 a ruler. This is a lamentation, and has become a lamentation.