But when I was in trouble, they were all glad and gathered around to make fun of me; strangers beat me and kept striking me.

All night I cried out with pain, As if a lion were breaking my bones. I thought that God was ending my life.

they wait in their hiding place like lions. They lie in wait for the poor; they catch them in their traps and drag them away.

They are like lions, waiting for me, wanting to tear me to pieces.

They open their mouths like lions, roaring and tearing at me.

About the tribe of Gad he said: "Praise God, who made their territory large. Gad waits like a lion To tear off an arm or a scalp.

The king's anger is like the roar of a lion, but his favor is like welcome rain.

But the Lord stayed with me and gave me strength, so that I was able to proclaim the full message for all the Gentiles to hear; and I was rescued from being sentenced to death.

Be alert, be on watch! Your enemy, the Devil, roams around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.

"Listen to this, you that ignore me, or I will destroy you, and there will be no one to save you.

So I will attack you like a lion. Like a leopard I will lie in wait along your path.

I will attack you like a bear that has lost her cubs, and I will tear you open. Like a lion I will devour you on the spot, and will tear you to pieces like a wild animal.

(SEE 18:27)

Sir, I had two sons, and one day they got into a quarrel out in the fields, where there was no one to separate them, and one of them killed the other.

You know that I am not guilty, that no one can save me from you.