For wild animals ¹  are prowling over Mount Zion, which lies desolate.

They return in the evening; they growl ¹  like a dog and prowl around outside ²  the city.

They return in the evening; they growl ¹  like a dog and prowl around outside ²  the city.

for the wicked seem to be everywhere, ¹  when people promote evil. ² 

You make it dark and night comes, ¹  during which all the beasts of the forest prowl around.

Be sober and alert. Your enemy the devil, like a roaring lion, ¹  is on the prowl looking for someone ²  to devour.

He walked about among the lions; he became a young lion. He learned to tear prey; he devoured people.

any kind of land animal, any bird that flies in the sky,

Where now is the den of the lions, ¹  the feeding place ²  of the young lions, where ³  the lion, lioness, ⁴  and lion cub once prowled ⁵  and no one disturbed them? ⁶ 

Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning devouring the prey, and in the evening dividing the plunder.”

Proud beasts ¹  have not set foot on it, and no lion has passed along it.

Even young lions sometimes lack food and are hungry, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.

Confuse them, ¹  O Lord! Frustrate their plans! ²  For I see violence and conflict in the city.

Day and night they walk around on its walls, ¹  while wickedness and destruction ²  are within it.

the plague that comes in the darkness, or the disease that comes at noon. ¹ 

The sluggard ¹  says, “There is a lion in the road! A lion in the streets!” ² 

Do not go out into the countryside. Do not travel on the roads. For the enemy is there with sword in hand. ¹  They are spreading terror everywhere.” ² 

ד (Dalet) To me he is like a bear lying in ambush, ¹  like a hidden lion ²  stalking its prey. ³ 

If I lift myself up, ¹  you hunt me as a fierce lion, ²  and again ³  you display your power ⁴  against me.

The Beloved to Her Lover: Catch ¹  the foxes ²  for us, the little foxes, ³  that ruin the vineyards ⁴  – for our vineyard is in bloom.