Or else he will tear me apart like a lion, ripping to pieces, with none [to] deliver.

He lies in ambush {secretly,} like a lion in a thicket. He lies in ambush to seize [the] poor; he seizes [the] poor by catching him in his net.

{He is like} a lion; he longs to tear apart, and like a strong lion crouching in hiding places.

[Yet] in all [the] world their line goes out, and their words to [the] end of [the] world. In them he has pitched a tent for the sun,

They open their mouth against me [like] a lion tearing and roaring.

Because dogs have surrounded me; a gang of evildoers has encircled me. Like the lion [they are at] my hands and my feet.

Save me from [the] mouth of [the] lion, and from [the] horns of [the] wild oxen answer me.

And he drove out nations before them and allocated them for an inheritance by [boundary] line, and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

You will tread on lion and viper; you will trample young lion and serpent.

I lie awake and I am like a lone bird on a roof.

My knees {buckle} from fasting, and my body grows lean without fat.