When she saw that she waited in vain, that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.
And she brought up one of her cubs; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey; he devoured men.
Judah is a lion’s cub; from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down; he crouched as a lion and as a lioness; who dares rouse him?
Hushai said, “You know that your father and his men are mighty men, and that they are enraged, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Besides, your father is expert in war; he will not spend the night with the people.
The nations heard about him; he was caught in their pit, and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
He prowled among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey; he devoured men,