<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">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>

and say:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;&#8216;What a lioness was your mother among the lions!p> <p class="poetry">She lay among young lions;<n id="1" /> she reared her cubs.p>

<p class="poetry">She reared one of her cubs; he became a young lion.p> <p class="poetry">He learned to tear prey; he devoured people.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;&#8216;When she realized that she waited in vain, her hope was lost.p> <p class="poetry">She took another of her cubs<n id="1" /> and made him a young lion.p>

<p class="lamhebrew">&#1490; (<i>Gimeli>)p> <p class="poetry">Even the jackals<n id="1" /> nurse their youngp> <p class="poetry">at their breast,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">but my people<n id="3" /> are cruel,p> <p class="poetry">like ostriches<n id="4" /> in the desert.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>