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

¹³ I quieted [myself] until morning; as a lion, so he breaks all my bones: From day even to night will you make an end of me.

²² "Now consider this, you who forget God, Lest I tear you into pieces, and there be none to deliver.

⁸ Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

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

⁷ Therefore am I to them like a lion; Like a leopard I will lurk by the path.

⁸ I will meet them like a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, And will tear the covering of their heart. And there I will devour them like a lioness. The wild animal will tear them.

¹² The king's wrath is like the roaring of a lion, But his favor is like dew on the grass.

¹⁵ But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn't know it. They tore at me, and didn't cease.

¹³ They open their mouths wide against me, Lions tearing prey and roaring.

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

⁹ He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net.

⁷ Although you know that I am not wicked, There is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

⁶ Your handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one struck the other, and killed him.

²⁸ There was no deliverer, because it was far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with any man; and it was in the valley that lies by Beth Rehob. They built the city, and lived therein.

²⁰ Of Gad he said, Blessed be he who enlarges Gad: He dwells as a lioness, Tears the arm, yes, the crown of the head.