¹¹ The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, And the whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad.

¹⁰ The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger; But they that seek Jehovah shall not want any good thing.

¹⁷ But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me; that through me the message might me fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

¹⁰ They shall walk after Jehovah, who will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children shall come trembling from the west.

⁷ A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make thy land desolate, that thy cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.

² Lest they tear my soul like a lion, Rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

³⁹ Canst thou hunt the prey for the lioness, Or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

¹⁴ If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

¹⁵ Those that remain of him shall be buried in death, And his widows shall make no lamentation.

³ Doth God pervert justice? Or doth the Almighty pervert righteousness?

⁴ If thy children have sinned against him, And he hath delivered them into the hand of their transgression;

¹⁹ and, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

⁹ He couched, he lay down as a lion, And as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Blessed be every one that blesseth thee, And cursed be every one that curseth thee.

²⁴ Behold, the people riseth up as a lioness, And as a lion doth he lift himself up: He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, And drink the blood of the slain.

⁹ Judah is a lion's whelp; From the prey, my son, thou art gone up: He stooped down, he couched as a lion, And as a lioness; who shall rouse him up?