(A)Lest they tear me like a lion,
(B)Rending me in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

Read full chapter

or they will tear me apart like a lion(A)
    and rip me to pieces with no one to rescue(B) me.

Read full chapter

10 (A)He has been to me a bear lying in wait,
Like a lion in [a]ambush.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 3:10 Lit. secret places

10 Like a bear lying in wait,
    like a lion(A) in hiding,(B)

Read full chapter

“So (A)I will be to them like a lion;
Like (B)a leopard by the road I will lurk;

Read full chapter

So I will be like a lion(A) to them,
    like a leopard I will lurk by the path.

Read full chapter

I will meet them (A)like a bear deprived of her cubs;
I will tear open their rib cage,
And there I will devour them like a lion.
The [a]wild beast shall tear them.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Hosea 13:8 Lit. beast of the field

Like a bear robbed of her cubs,(A)
    I will attack them and rip them open;
like a lion(B) I will devour them—
    a wild animal will tear them apart.(C)

Read full chapter