19:2 What was your mother? Like a she-lion among lions, stretched out among the young lions she gave food to her little ones.
19:3 And one of her little ones came to growth under her care, and became a young lion, learning to go after beasts for his food; and he took men for his meat.
19:4 And the nations had news of him; he was taken in the hole they had made: and, pulling him with hooks, they took him into the land of Egypt.
19:5 Now when she saw that her hope was made foolish and gone, she took another of her little ones and made him into a young lion.
19:6 And he went up and down among the lions and became a young lion, learning to go after beasts for his food; and he took men for his meat.
19:7 And he sent destruction on their widows and made waste their towns; and the land and everything in it became waste because of the loud sound of his voice.
19:8 Then the nations came against him from the kingdoms round about: their net was stretched over him and he was taken in the hole they had made.
19:9 They made him a prisoner with hooks, and took him to the king of Babylon; they put him in the strong place so that his voice might be sounding no longer on the mountains of Israel.
19:10 Your mother was in comparison like a vine, planted by the waters: she was fertile and full of branches because of the great waters.
19:11 And she had a strongrod for a rod of authority for the rulers, and it became tall among the clouds and it was seen lifted up among the number of its branches.
19:12 But she was uprooted in burning wrath, and made low on the earth; the east wind came, drying her up, and her branches were broken off; her strongrod became dry, the fire made a meal of it.
19:13 And now she is planted in the waste land, in a dry and unwatered country.
