⁹ 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)

⁵ “‘When she saw her hope unfulfilled,
    her expectation gone,
she took another of her cubs^(A)
    and made him a strong lion.^(B)
6 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)
7 He broke down^[a] their strongholds
    and devastated^(D) their towns.
The land and all who were in it
    were terrified by his roaring.

⁸ 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)