Where is the den of the lions and the feeding place of the young lions, there where the lion, and the lioness, and the lion’s cub walked, and none shall terrify them?
For so Jehovah has said to me: As the lion roars, even the young lion on his prey when the band of shepherds are called against him, he will not fear their voice, and not is humbled because of their noise. So Jehovah of Hosts shall go down to fight on Mount Zion, and on its hill.
Its roaring shall be like a lion; they shall roar like young lions. Yea, they roar and seize the prey and bring it away safely; and not one shall deliver.
The lion has come up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his place to make your land a waste. Your cities will fall into ruins without one living in them.
Israel is a scattered sheep, driven away by lions. First, the king of Assyria devoured him. And last, this King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon broke his bones.
Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the pride of Jordan against the perpetual abode. But I will make them suddenly run away from it. And who is a chosen one I will appoint over it? For who is like Me? And who will summon Me? And who is this shepherd who will stand before Me?
Son of man, lift up a lament over Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and say to him, You were like a young lion of the nations, and you were like the monster in the seas. And you burst forth in your rivers and stirred up the waters with your feet and fouled their rivers.
And they shall feed upon the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod at her entrances. And He shall deliver us from Assyria, when he comes into our land, and when he treads within our border.
Behold, the people shall rise like a lioness and as a lion he shall lift himself up; he shall not lie down until he eats the prey and drinks the blood of the slain.