When she saw that she waited in vain, her hope was lost. So she took another cub and made him a young lion.
A lion’s cub is Judah— from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He crouches, lies down like a lion, or like a lioness— who would rouse him?
Hushai then added, “You know your father and his men. They are mighty men, and they are embittered in their souls like a bear robbed of her cubs in the wild. Your father is an expert in warfare, and won’t spend the night with the troops.
When she raised up one of her cubs, he became a young lion. When he learned to tear prey, he devoured people.
When the nations heard about him, he was caught in their pit. They brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
He prowled among the lions. He became a young lion, learned to catch prey, devoured men.