²⁹ Their roaring is like a lion;
    like young lions they roar;
they growl and seize their prey;
    they carry it off, and no one can rescue.^(A)

⁷ A lion has gone up from its thicket;
    a destroyer of nations has set out;
    he has gone out from his place
to make your land a waste;
    your cities will be ruins
    without inhabitant.^(A)

3 Woe, city of bloodshed,
    utterly deceitful, full of plunder—
    no end to the prey!^(A)