They say, "Let's tear off the shackles they've put on us! Let's free ourselves from their ropes!"

Otherwise they will rip me to shreds like a lion; they will tear me to bits and no one will be able to rescue me.

He is like a lion that wants to tear its prey to bits, like a young lion crouching in hidden places.

Remember, O Lord, what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell. They said, "Tear it down, tear it down, right to its very foundation!"