American Standard Version (ASV) With Strong Codes

1. Moreover[H5375], take thou up a lamentation[H7015] for the princes[H5387] of Israel[H3478],

2. and say[H559], What was thy mother[H517]? A lioness[H3833]: she couched[H7257] among lions[H738], in the midst[H8432] of the young lions[H3715] she nourished[H7235] her whelps[H1482].

3. And she brought up[H5927] one[H259] of her whelps[H1482]: he became a young lion[H3715], and he learned[H3925] to catch[H2963] the prey[H2964]; he devoured[H398] men[H120].

4. The nations[H1471] also heard[H8085] of him[H8610]; he was taken in their pit[H7845]; and they brought[H935] him with hooks[H2397] unto the land[H776] of Egypt[H4714].

5. Now when she saw[H7200] that she had waited[H3176], and her hope[H8615] was lost[H6], then she took[H3947] another[H259] of her whelps[H1482], and made[H7760] him a young lion[H3715].

6. And he went up and down[H1980] among[H8432] the lions[H738]; he became a young lion[H3715], and he learned[H3925] to catch[H2963] the prey[H2964]; he devoured[H398] men[H120].

7. And he knew[H3045] their palaces[H490], and laid waste[H2717] their cities[H5892]; and the land[H776] was desolate[H3456], and the fulness[H4393] thereof[H6963], because of the noise of his roaring[H7581].

8. Then the nations[H1471] set[H5414] against him on every side[H5439] from the provinces[H4082]; and they spread[H6566] their net[H7568] over him[H8610]; he was taken in their pit[H7845].

9. And they put[H5414] him in a cage[H5474] with hooks[H2397], and brought[H935] him to the king[H4428] of Babylon[H894]; they brought[H935] him into strongholds[H4685], that his voice[H6963] should no more be heard[H8085] upon the mountains[H2022] of Israel[H3478].

10. Thy mother[H517] was like a vine[H1612], in thy blood[H1818], planted[H8362] by the waters[H4325]: it was fruitful[H6509] and full of branches[H6058] by reason of many[H7227] waters[H4325].

11. And it had strong[H5797] rods[H4294] for the sceptres[H7626] of them that bare rule[H4910], and their stature[H6967] was exalted[H1361] among the thick boughs[H5688], and they were seen[H7200] in their height[H1363] with the multitude[H7230] of their branches[H1808].

12. But it was plucked up[H5428] in fury[H2534], it was cast down[H7993] to the ground[H776], and the east[H6921] wind[H7307] dried up[H3001] its fruit[H6529]: its strong[H5797] rods[H4294] were broken[H6561] off and withered[H3001]; the fire[H784] consumed them[H398].

13. And now it is planted[H8362] in the wilderness[H4057], in a dry[H6723] and thirsty[H6772] land[H776].

14. And fire[H784] is gone out[H3318] of the rods[H4294] of its branches[H905], it hath devoured[H398] its fruit[H6529], so that there is in it no strong[H5797] rod[H4294] to be a sceptre[H7626] to rule[H4910]. This is a lamentation[H7015], and shall be for a lamentation[H7015].