1Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, 2And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions. 3And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men. 4The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt. 5Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion. 6And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men. 7And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.19.7 their desolate…: or, their widows19.7 the fulness…: or, all it containeth 8Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit. 9And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.19.9 in chains: or, in hooks
10¶ Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.19.10 in…: or, in thy quietness, or, in thy likeness 11And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches. 12But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them. 13And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground. 14And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
Nyimbo ya Maliro a Akalonga a Israeli
1“Imba nyimbo ya madandawulo, kuyimbira akalonga a ku Israeli. 2Uzinena kuti,
“ ‘Amayi ako anali ndani?
Anali ngati mkango waukazi!
Iwo unabwatama pakati pa mikango yayimuna;
unkalera ana ake pakati pa misona.
3Unalera mmodzi mwa ana ake,
ndipo mwanayo anasanduka mkango wamphamvu.
Unaphunzira kugwira nyama,
ndipo unayamba kudya anthu.
4Anthu amitundu anamva za mkangowo,
ndipo tsiku lina unagwa mʼmbuna mwawo.
Iwo anawukoka ndi ngowe
kupita nawo ku dziko la Igupto.
5“ ‘Amayi aja ataona kuti mwana ankamukhulupirira uja wagwidwa ndi kuti chiyembekezo chake chapita padera,
amayiwo anatenganso mwana wina
namusandutsa mkango wamphamvu.
6Unkayendayenda pakati pa mikango inzake,
pakuti tsopano unali mkango wamphamvu.
Unaphunzira kugwira nyama
ndipo unayamba kudya anthu.
7Unagwetsa malinga awo,
ndikuwononga mizinda yawo.
Onse a mʼdzikomo
anachita mantha chifukwa cha kubangula kwake.
8Pamenepo mitundu ya anthu, makamaka ochokera madera ozungulira,
inabwera kudzalimbana nawo.
Anawutchera ukonde wawo,
ndipo tsiku lina unagwera mʼmbuna mwawo.
9Anawukoka ndi ngowe nawuponya mʼchitatanga.
Anabwera nawo kwa mfumu ya ku Babuloni
ndipo mfumuyo inawuponya mʼndende
ndi cholinga choti liwu lake lisamamvekenso
ku mapiri a Israeli.
10“ ‘Amayi ako anali ngati mpesa mʼmunda wamphesa
wodzalidwa mʼmbali mwa madzi.
Unabereka bwino ndipo unali ndi nthambi zambiri
chifukwa cha kuchuluka kwa madzi.
11Nthambi zake zinali zolimba,
zoyenera kupangira ndodo yaufumu.
Unatalika nusomphoka pakati pa
zomera zina.
Unkaoneka bwino chifukwa cha kutalika kwake,
ndi nthambi zake zambiri.
12Koma unazulidwa mwaukali
ndipo unagwetsedwa pansi.
Unawuma ndi mphepo ya kummawa,
zipatso zake zinayoyoka;
nthambi zake zolimba zinafota
ndipo moto unapsereza mtengo wonse.
13Ndipo tsopano anawuwokeranso ku chipululu,
dziko lowuma ndi lopanda madzi.
14Moto unatulukanso mu mtengomo
ndi kupsereza nthambi ndi zipatso zake.
Palibe nthambi yolimba inatsala pa mtengowo
yoyenera kupangira ndodo yaufumu.
Imeneyi ndi nyimbo yachisoni ndipo yasanduka nyimbo ya pa maliro.’ ”
