He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.
If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.
He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net.
He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me.
He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.
He has walled up my ways with hewn stone; he has made my paths crooked.
For I will be to Efrayim like a lion, and like a young lion to the house of Yehudah. I myself will tear in pieces and go away. I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver.
*Come, and let us return to the LORD; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.