¹¹ Where is the dwelling of the ^(A)lions,
And the feeding place of the young lions,
Where the lion walked, the lioness and lion’s cub,
And no one made them afraid?

^3 (A)Her princes in her midst are roaring lions;
Her judges are ^(B)evening wolves
That leave not a bone till morning.

‘What is your mother? A lioness:
She lay down among the lions;
Among the young lions she nourished her cubs.
³ She brought up one of her cubs,
And ^(A)he became a young lion;
He learned to catch prey,
And he devoured men.
⁴ The nations also heard of him;
He was trapped in their pit,
And they brought him with chains to the land of ^(B)Egypt.

⁵ ‘When she saw that she waited, that her hope was lost,
She took ^(C)another of her cubs and made him a young lion.
^6 (D)He roved among the lions,
And ^(E)became a young lion;
He learned to catch prey;
He devoured men.
^7 [a]He knew their desolate places,
And laid waste their cities;
The land with its fullness was desolated
By the noise of his roaring.
^8 (F)Then the nations set against him from the provinces on every side,
And spread their net over him;
^(G)He was trapped in their pit.

⁴⁴ “Behold,^(A) he shall come up like a lion from the ^[a]floodplain of the Jordan
Against the dwelling place of the strong;
But I will make them suddenly run away from her.
And who is a chosen man that I may appoint over her?
For who is like Me?
Who will arraign Me?
And ^(B)who is that shepherd
Who will withstand Me?”

¹⁷ “Israel is like ^(A)scattered sheep;
^(B)The lions have driven him away.
First ^(C)the king of Assyria devoured him;
Now at last this ^(D)Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.”

^7 (A)The lion has come up from his thicket,
And ^(B)the destroyer of nations is on his way.
He has gone forth from his place
^(C)To make your land desolate.
Your cities will be laid waste,
Without inhabitant.