你当为以色列的首领举哀，
But you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

说，你的母亲是什么呢？是狮子中间的母狮，蹲伏在少壮狮子中，养育小狮子。
And say, What was your mother? / A lioness among lions. / She lay in the midst of young lions; / She brought up her whelps.

在它小狮子中养大一只，成了少壮狮子，学会抓食而吃人。
When she raised up one of her whelps, / He became a young lion; / And he learned to take prey; / He devoured men.

列国听见了，就把它捉在他们的坑中，用钩子拉到埃及地去。
Then the nations heard of him; / He was captured in their pit, / And they brought him with hooks / To the land of Egypt.

母狮见自己等候失了指望，就从它小狮子中又将一只养为少壮狮子。
When she saw that she had waited, / That her hope was lost, / She took another one of her whelps; / She made him a young lion.

它在众狮子中走来走去，成了少壮狮子，学会抓食而吃人。
And he went about among the lions; / He became a young lion. / And he learned to take prey; / He devoured men.

它毁坏列国的宫堡，又使他们的城邑变为荒场；因它咆哮的声音，地和其中所充满的就都惊骇。
And he destroyed their citadels / And laid waste their cities; / And the land and its fullness were horrified / At the sound of his roaring.

于是四围列国各省的人来攻击它，将网撒在它身上，把它捉在他们的坑中。
Then the nations set against him / All around from the provinces / And spread their net over him; / He was captured in their pit.

他们用钩子将它钩进笼中，带到巴比伦王那里，将它放入坚固之所，使它的声音在以色列山上不再听见。
And they put him in a cage with hooks / And brought him to the king of Babylon — / They brought him into strongholds — / That his voice would no longer be heard / Upon the mountains of Israel.

你的母亲先前如你葡萄园中的葡萄树，栽于水旁；因为水多，就多结果子，满生枝子；
Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, / Transplanted beside the waters; / It was fruitful and full of branches / Because of abundant waters.

有坚固的枝干，可作掌权者的杖；其树身高举在茂密的枝中，因树高大，枝子繁多，远远可见。
And it had strong branches / For scepters of those who rule; / And its height was exalted among the leafy boughs, / And it was visible in its height because of the multitude of its branches.

但这葡萄树因神的忿怒被拔出摔在地上；东风吹干其上的果子，坚固的枝干折断枯干，被火烧毁；
But it was plucked up in wrath; / It was cast down to the ground; / And the east wind dried up its fruit; / Its strong branch was broken off and it withered; / The fire consumed it.

如今栽于旷野，在干旱无水之地。
And now it is transplanted in the wilderness, / In a dry and thirsty land.

火也从它枝干中发出，烧灭枝条和果子，以致其上没有坚固的枝干可作掌权者的杖。这是哀歌，也已用作哀歌。
And fire has gone forth from its branch; / It has consumed its offshoots and its fruit, / So that there is no strong branch in it, / A scepter to rule. This is a lamentation and it has become a lamentation.