They will be weak from hunger,
ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague;
I will unleash on them wild beasts with fangs,
as well as venomous snakes that slither in the dust.

The lion may roar and the fierce lion growl,
but the fangs of young lions are broken.

He will suck the poison of cobras;
a viper’s fangs will kill him.

I shattered the fangs of the unjust
and snatched the prey from his teeth.

God, knock the teeth out of their mouths;
Lord, tear out the young lions’ fangs.

For a nation has invaded My land,
powerful and without number;
its teeth are the teeth of a lion,
and it has the fangs of a lioness.

There is a generation whose teeth are swords,
whose fangs are knives,
devouring the oppressed from the land
and the needy from among mankind.