| King James Bible | English Standard Version |
| 1Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, | 1And you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, |
| 2And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions. | 2and say: What was your mother? A lioness! Among lions she crouched; in the midst of young lions she reared her cubs. |
| 3And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men. | 3And she brought up one of her cubs; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey; he devoured men. |
| 4The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt. | 4The nations heard about him; he was caught in their pit, and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt. |
| 5Now 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. | 5When she saw that she waited in vain, that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a young lion. |
| 6And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men. | 6He prowled among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey; he devoured men, |
| 7And 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. | 7and seized their widows. He laid waste their cities, and the land was appalled and all who were in it at the sound of his roaring. |
| 8Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit. | 8Then the nations set against him from provinces on every side; they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit. |
| 9And 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. | 9With 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 on the mountains of Israel. |
| 10Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters. | 10Your mother was like a vine in a vineyard planted by the water, fruitful and full of branches by reason of abundant water. |
| 11And 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. | 11Its strong stems became rulers’ scepters; it towered aloft among the thick boughs; it was seen in its height with the mass of its branches. |
| 12But 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. | 12But the vine was plucked up in fury, cast down to the ground; the east wind dried up its fruit; they were stripped off and withered. As for its strong stem, fire consumed it. |
| 13And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground. | 13Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land. |
| 14And 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. | 14And fire has gone out from the stem of its shoots, has consumed its fruit, so that there remains in it no strong stem, no scepter for ruling. This is a lamentation and has become a lamentation. |
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