^{2 Ref} and say, What was your mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her cubs.

^{3 Ref} She brought up one of her cubs: he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.

^{4 Ref} The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.

^{5 Ref} Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her cubs, and made him a young lion.

^{6 Ref} He went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.

^{7 Ref} He knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fullness of it, because of the noise of his roaring.

^{8 Ref} Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces; and they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.