If I lift myself up, you hunt me as a fierce lion, and again you display your power against me.

There is the roaring of the lion and the growling of the young lion, but the teeth of the young lions are broken.

Proud beasts have not set foot on it, and no lion has passed along it.

You will subdue a lion and a snake; you will trample underfoot a young lion and a serpent.

The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road! A lion in the streets!”

So I will pounce on them like a lion; like a leopard I will lurk by the path.

I will be like a lion to Ephraim, like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear them to pieces, then I will carry them off, and no one will be able to rescue them!