²¹ Be my saviour from the lion's mouth; let me go free from the horns of the cruel oxen.

¹⁷ But the Lord was by my side and gave me strength; so that through me the news might be given out in full measure, and all the Gentiles might give ear: and I was taken out of the mouth of the lion.

²² It is God who has taken them out of Egypt; his horns are like those of the mountain ox.

⁸ Be serious and keep watch; the Evil One, who is against you, goes about like a lion with open mouth in search of food;

³⁰ The God of our fathers gave Jesus back to life, whom you had put to death, hanging him on a tree.

³¹ Him God has put on high at his right hand, as a Ruler and a Saviour, to give to Israel a change of heart and forgiveness of sins.

³² And we are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who keep his laws.

²⁷ For, truly, in this town, against your holy servant, Jesus, who was marked out by you as Christ, Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, came together,

³⁰ After this I will not say much to you, because the ruler of this world comes: and he has no power over me;

⁵⁹ So they took up stones to send at him: but Jesus got secretly out of their way and went out of the Temple.

⁵³ When I was in the Temple with you every day, your hands were not stretched out against me: but this is your hour, and the authority of the dark power.

⁷ And the strong oxen will go down to death together with the smaller cattle.

⁹ To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place.

¹⁰ He makes sport of the noise of the town; the voice of the driver does not come to his ears;

¹⁷ He is a young ox, glory is his; his horns are the horns of the mountain ox, with which all peoples will be wounded, even to the ends of the earth: they are the ten thousands of Ephraim and the thousands of Manasseh.