² So that he may not come rushing on my soul like a lion, wounding it, while there is no one to be my saviour.

¹³ I am crying out with pain till the morning; it is as if a lion was crushing all my bones.

²² Now keep this in mind, you who have no memory of God, for fear that you may be crushed under my hand, with no one to give you help:

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;

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.

⁷ So I will be like a lion to them; as a cruel beast I will keep watch by the road;

⁸ I will come face to face with them like a bear whose young ones have been taken from her, and their inmost hearts will be broken; there the dogs will make a meal of them; they will be wounded by the beasts of the field.

¹² The king's wrath is like the loud cry of a lion, but his approval is like dew on the grass.

¹⁵ But they took pleasure in my trouble, and came together, yes, low persons came together against me without my knowledge; they never came to an end of wounding me.

¹³ I saw their mouths wide open, like lions crying after food.

¹² Like a lion desiring its food, and like a young lion waiting in secret places.

⁹ He keeps himself in a secret place like a lion in his hole, waiting to put his hands on the poor man, and pulling him into his net.

⁷ Though you see that I am not an evil-doer; and there is no one who is able to take a man out of your hands?

⁶ And I had two sons, and the two of them had a fight in the field, and there was no one to come between them, and one with a blow put the other to death.

²⁸ And they had no saviour, because it was far from Zidon, and they had no business with Aram; and it was in the valley which is the property of Beth-rehob. And building up the town again they took it for their living-place.

²⁰ Of Gad he said, A blessing be on him who makes wide the limits of Gad: he takes his rest like a she-lion, taking for himself the arm and the crown of the head.