“I soothed myself until morning. Like a lion, so He shatters all my bones. From day to night You make an end of me.
Then he said to him, “Because you have not obeyed the voice of יהוה, see, as soon as you leave me a lion shall smite you.” And when he left him, a lion found him and smote him.
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without expectancy.
For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; My sap was turned into the droughts of summer. Selah.
“Turn aside Your stroke from me; I am overcome by the blow of Your hand.
“Understand this please, you who forget Eloah, Lest I tear you in pieces, With no one to deliver:
Let me hear joy and gladness, Let the bones You have crushed rejoice.
Lest they tear at my throat like a lion, Rending in pieces, with no one to deliver.
You have swept them away, They are as a sleep, Like grass that springs up in the morning.
He has worn out my flesh and my skin, He has broken my bones.
And the sovereign gave orders and they brought those men who had accused Dani’ĕ
“For I am like a lion to Ephrayim, and like a young lion to the house of Yehuḏ