He crouches, he lies down like a lion
or a lioness—who dares to rouse him?(A)
Those who bless you will be blessed,
and those who curse you will be cursed.(B)

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Like a lion they crouch and lie down,
    like a lioness(A)—who dares to rouse them?

“May those who bless you be blessed(B)
    and those who curse you be cursed!”(C)

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He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.

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When she saw that she waited in vain,
that her hope was lost,
she took another of her cubs
and made him a young lion.
He prowled among the lions,(A)
and he became a young lion.
After he learned to tear prey,
he devoured people.
He devastated their strongholds[a]
and destroyed their cities.
The land and everything in it shuddered
at the sound of his roaring.

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Footnotes

  1. 19:7 Tg, Aq; MT reads knew their widows

“‘When she saw her hope unfulfilled,
    her expectation gone,
she took another of her cubs(A)
    and made him a strong lion.(B)
He prowled among the lions,
    for he was now a strong lion.
He learned to tear the prey
    and he became a man-eater.(C)
He broke down[a] their strongholds
    and devastated(D) their towns.
The land and all who were in it
    were terrified by his roaring.

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  1. Ezekiel 19:7 Targum (see Septuagint); Hebrew He knew

Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.

And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.

And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.

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Then the remnant of Jacob
will be among the nations, among many peoples,
like a lion among animals of the forest,(A)
like a young lion among flocks of sheep,
which tramples(B) and tears(C) as it passes through,
and there is no one to rescue them.(D)

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The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations,
    in the midst of many peoples,
like a lion among the beasts of the forest,(A)
    like a young lion among flocks of sheep,
which mauls and mangles(B) as it goes,
    and no one can rescue.(C)

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And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.

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Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep. Look, the Lion from the tribe of Judah,(A) the Root of David,(B) has conquered(C) so that he is able to open the scroll and[a] its seven seals.”

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Footnotes

  1. 5:5 Other mss add loose

Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep! See, the Lion(A) of the tribe of Judah,(B) the Root of David,(C) has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals.”

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And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.

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