¹² He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, And as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

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

⁹ He lurketh in secret as a lion in his covert; He lieth in wait to catch the poor: He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him in his net.

¹³ They gape upon me with their mouth, `As' a ravening and a roaring lion.

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.

⁸ Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour,