⁸ I do meet them as a bereaved bear, And I rend the enclosure of their heart.

⁸ And Hushai saith, `Thou hast known thy father and his men, that they `are' heroes, and they are bitter in soul as a bereaved bear in a field, and thy father `is' a man of war, and doth not lodge with the people;

²² Understand this, I pray you, Ye who are forgetting God, Lest I tear, and there is no deliverer.

¹³ A boar out of the forest doth waste it, And a wild beast of the fields consumeth it.

¹² The meeting of a bereaved bear by a man, And -- not a fool in his folly.

²⁹ Its roaring `is' like a lioness, It roareth like young lions, And it howleth, and seizeth prey, And carrieth away safely, and there is none delivering.

⁹ Every beast of the field, Come to devour, every beast in the forest.

⁹ A speckled fowl `is' Mine inheritance to Me? Is the fowl round about against her? Come, assemble, every beast of the field, Come ye for food.

¹ I have seen the Lord standing by the altar, and He saith: `Smite the knob, and the thresholds shake, And cut them off by the head -- all of them, And their posterity with a sword I do slay, Not flee to them doth the fleer, Nor escape to them doth a fugitive.

² If they dig through into sheol, From thence doth My hand take them, And if they go up the heavens, From thence I cause them to come down.

³ And if they be hid in the top of Carmel, From thence I search out, and have taken them, And if they be hid from Mine eyes in the bottom of the sea, From thence I command the serpent, And it hath bitten them.