Three things are stately in their stride, four that move with stately bearing:
a lizard you can catch with the hand, yet it is found in kings’ palaces.
a lion, mighty among beasts, who never backs down from anything;
Six things Adonai hates, yes, seven are abominations to Him:
The leech has two daughters: “Give! Give!” Three things are never satisfied, four never say, “Enough!”—
They will devastate the land of Assyria with the sword— even Nimrod’s land with a drawn blade. He will deliver us from Assyria, when he invades our land, when he tramples on our territory.