<p class="lamhebrew">&#1491; (<i>Daleti>)p> <p class="poetry">To me he is like a bear lying in ambush,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">like a hidden lion<n id="2" /> stalking its prey.<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Where now is the den of the lions,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">the feeding place<n id="2" /> of the young lions,p> <p class="poetry">where<n id="3" /> the lion, lioness,<n id="4" /> and lion cub once prowled<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">and no one disturbed them?<n id="6" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Of Dan he said:p> <p class="poetry">Dan is a lion&#8217;s cub;p> <p class="poetry">he will leap forth from Bashan.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">There is<n id="1" /> the roaring of the lion<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and the growling<n id="3" /> of the young lion,p> <p class="poetry">but the teeth of the young lions are broken.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">They<n id="1" /> open their mouths to devour me<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">like a roaring lion that rips its prey.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Rescue me from the mouth of the lion,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and from the horns of the wild oxen!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">You have answered me!<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">You are a lion&#8217;s cub, Judah,p> <p class="poetry">from the prey, my son, you have gone up.p> <p class="poetry">He crouches and lies down like a lion;p> <p class="poetry">like a lioness &#8211; who will rouse him?p>

<p class="poetry">A lion has roared!<n id="1" /> Who is not afraid?p> <p class="poetry">The sovereign <sc>Lordsc> has spoken! Who can refuse to prophesy?<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">The lion tore apart as much prey as his cubs needed<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and strangled prey to provide food<n id="2" /> for his lionesses;p> <p class="poetry">he filled<n id="3" /> his lairs with preyp> <p class="poetry">and his dens with torn flesh.p>

As the prophet from Judah was traveling, a lion attacked him on the road and killed him.<n id="1" /> His corpse was lying on the road, and the donkey and the lion just stood there beside it.<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">Indeed, the waters of Dimon<n id="1" /> are full of blood!p> <p class="poetry">Indeed, I will heap even more trouble on Dimon.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">A lion will attack<n id="3" /> the Moabite fugitivesp> <p class="poetry">and the people left in the land.p>

<p class="poetry">Then the guard<n id="1" /> cries out:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;On the watchtower, O sovereign master,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I stand all day long;p> <p class="poetry">at my postp> <p class="poetry">I am stationed every night.p>

<p class="poetry">No lions will be there,p> <p class="poetry">no ferocious wild animals will be on it<n id="1" /> &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">they will not be found there.p> <p class="poetry">Those delivered from bondage will travel on it,p>

<p class="poetry">Like a lion that has come up from its lair<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">the one who destroys nations has set out from his home base.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">He is coming out to lay your land waste.p> <p class="poetry">Your cities will become ruins and lie uninhabited.p>

<p class="bodytext">Their faces had this appearance: Each of the four had the face of a man, with the face of a lion on the right, the face of an ox on the left and also the face of an eagle.<n id="1" />

Each of the cherubim<n id="1" /> had four faces: The first was the face of a cherub,<n id="2" /> the second that of a man, the third that of a lion, and the fourth that of an eagle.p>

<p class="poetry">For a nation<n id="1" /> has invaded<n id="2" /> our<n id="3" /> land.p> <p class="poetry">There are so many of them they are too numerous to count.<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">Their teeth are like those<n id="5" /> of a lion;p> <p class="poetry">they tear apart their prey like a lioness.<n id="6" />p>

<p class="poetry">Does a lion roar in the woods if he has not cornered his prey?<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Does a young lion bellow from his den if he has not caught something?p>

<p class="bodytext">Some of the Gadites joined David at the stronghold in the desert. They were warriors who were trained for battle; they carried shields and spears. They were as fierce as lions and could run as quickly as gazelles across the hills.<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">So like a lion from the thicket their enemies will kill them.p> <p class="poetry">Like a wolf from the desert they will destroy them.p> <p class="poetry">Like a leopard they will lie in wait outside their citiesp> <p class="poetry">and totally destroy anyone who ventures out.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">For they have rebelled so muchp> <p class="poetry">and done so many unfaithful things.<n id="2" />p>