lest like a lion they tear my soul apart, rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.
“Mark this, then, you who forget God, lest I tear you apart, and there be none to deliver!
I calmed myself until morning; like a lion he breaks all my bones; from day to night you bring me to an end.
Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. So I was rescued from the lion's mouth.
So I am to them like a lion; like a leopard I will lurk beside the way. I will fall upon them like a bear robbed of her cubs; I will tear open their breast, and there I will devour them like a lion, as a wild beast would rip them open.
A king's wrath is like the growling of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.
But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered; they gathered together against me; wretches whom I did not know tore at me without ceasing;
they open wide their mouths at me, like a ravening and roaring lion.
He is like a lion eager to tear, as a young lion lurking in ambush.
he lurks in ambush like a lion in his thicket; he lurks that he may seize the poor; he seizes the poor when he draws him into his net.
although you know that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of your hand?
And your servant had two sons, and they quarreled with one another in the field. There was no one to separate them, and one struck the other and killed him.
And there was no deliverer because it was far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with anyone. It was in the valley that belongs to Beth-rehob. Then they rebuilt the city and lived in it.
And of Gad he said, “Blessed be he who enlarges Gad! Gad crouches like a lion; he tears off arm and scalp.
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