² What was your mother? Like a she-lion among lions, stretched out among the young lions she gave food to her little ones.

¹¹ The old lion comes to his end for need of food, and the young of the she-lion go wandering in all directions.

⁶ O God, let their teeth be broken in their mouths; let the great teeth of the young lions be pulled out, O Lord.

²⁹ The sound of their armies will be like the voice of a lion, and their war-cry like the noise of young lions: with loud cries they will come down on their food and will take it away safely, and there will be no one to take it out of their hands.

⁶ And the wolf will be living with the lamb, and the leopard will take his rest with the young goat; and the lion will take grass for food like the ox; and the young lion will go with the young ones of the herd; and a little child will be their guide.

⁷ And the cow and the bear will be friends while their young ones are sleeping together.

⁸ And the child at the breast will be playing by the hole of the snake, and the older child will put his hand on the bright eye of the poison-snake.

⁹ There will be no cause of pain or destruction in all my holy mountain: for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the sea is covered by the waters.

¹¹ Everything has been taken from her, all is gone, she has nothing more: the heart is turned to water, the knees are shaking, all are twisted in pain, and colour has gone from all faces.

¹² Where is the lions' hole, the place where the young lions got their food, where the lion and the she-lion were walking with their young, without cause for fear?

¹ Sorrow to her who is uncontrolled and unclean, the cruel town!

² She gave no attention to the voice, she had no use for teaching, she put no faith in the Lord, she did not come near to her God.

³ Her rulers are like loud-voiced lions in her; her judges are wolves of the evening, crushing up the bones before the morning.

⁴ Her prophets are good-for-nothing persons, full of deceit: her priests have made the holy place unclean and have gone violently against the law.

³ The sound of the crying of the keepers of the flock! for their glory is made waste: the sound of the loud crying of the young lions! for the pride of Jordan is made waste.