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Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
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and say, What was your mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her whelps.
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She brought up one of her whelps: he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.
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The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.