4The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks to 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.
6He went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.
7He 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.
8Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces; and they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.
9They put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into strongholds, that his voice should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel.
10Your mother was like a vine, in your blood, planted by the waters: it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
