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and say, ‘^[a]What was your mother? A lioness among lions! She lay down among young lions, She reared her cubs.

‘When she brought up one of her cubs, He became a lion, And he learned to tear his prey; He devoured men.

‘Then nations heard about him; He was captured in their pit, And they ^(c)brought him with hooks To the land of Egypt.

‘When she saw, as she waited, That her hope was lost, She took ^[b]another of her cubs And made him a young lion.

‘And he ^(d)walked about among the lions; He became a young lion, He learned to tear his prey; He devoured men.

‘He ^[c]destroyed their ^[d]fortified towers And laid waste their cities; And the land and its fullness were appalled Because of the sound of his roaring.

‘Then ^(e)nations set against him On every side from their provinces, And they spread their net over him; He was captured in their pit.

‘^(f)They put him in a cage with hooks And ^(g)brought him to the king of Babylon; They brought him in hunting nets So that his voice would be heard no more On the mountains of Israel.