¹ 你當為以色列的王作起哀歌，

² 說：你的母親是甚麼呢？是個母獅子，蹲伏在獅子中間，在少壯獅子中養育小獅子。

³ 在他小獅子中養大一個，成了少壯獅子，學會抓食而吃人。

⁴ 列國聽見了就把他捉在他們的坑中，用鉤子拉到埃及地去。

⁵ 母獅見自己等候失了指望，就從他小獅子中又將一個養為少壯獅子。

⁶ 他在眾獅子中走來走去，成了少壯獅子，學會抓食而吃人。

⁷ 他知道列國的宮殿，又使他們的城邑變為荒場；因他咆哮的聲音，遍地和其中所有的就都荒廢。

⁸ 於是四圍邦國各省的人來攻擊他，將網撒在他身上，捉在他們的坑中。

⁹ 他們用鉤子鉤住他，將他放在籠中，帶到巴比倫王那裡，將他放入堅固之所，使他的聲音在以色列山上不再聽見。

¹⁰ 你的母親先前如葡萄樹，極其茂盛（原文是在你血中），栽於水旁。因為水多，就多結果子，滿生枝子；

¹¹ 生出堅固的枝幹，可作掌權者的杖。這枝幹高舉在茂密的枝中，而且他生長高大，枝子繁多，遠遠可見。

¹² 但這葡萄樹因忿怒被拔出摔在地上；東風吹乾其上的果子，堅固的枝幹折斷枯乾，被火燒燬了；

¹³ 如今栽於曠野乾旱無水之地。

¹⁴ 火也從他枝幹中發出，燒滅果子，以致沒有堅固的枝幹可作掌權者的杖。這是哀歌，也必用以作哀歌。

³¹ Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

³² not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was a husband to them, says Yahweh.

³³ But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:

³⁴ and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know Yahweh; for they shall all Know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says Yahweh: for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.