The strength of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the exulting cry of serpents are quenched.

The old lion has perished for want of food, and the lions' whelps have forsaken one another.

If your sons have sinned before Him, He has cast them away because of their transgression.

His roots shall be dried up from beneath, and his crop shall fall away from above.

Let [one] drive him from light into darkness.

And if their children are many, they shall be for slaughter: and if they grow up, they shall beg.

You shall not bow down to them, nor serve them; for I am the Lord your God, a jealous God, recompensing the sins of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation to them that hate Me,

Let his children be orphans, and his wife a widow.

Let [his] creditor exact all that belongs to him; and let strangers spoil his labors.

Let his children be [given up] to utter destruction; in one generation let his name be blotted out.

Let them be before the Lord continually; and let their memorial be blotted out from the earth.

Salvation is far from sinners; for they have not searched out Your statutes.

Blessed is the man who shall satisfy his desire with them; they shall not be ashamed when they shall speak to their enemies in the gates.

suddenly a great wind came from across the desert, and caught the four corners of the house, and the house fell upon your children, and they are dead; and I alone have escaped, [and have] come to tell you.

Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them, do you think that these were offenders more than all other men who dwelt in Jerusalem?

Not at all, I tell you; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish."

For You know that I have not committed iniquity, but who is he that can deliver out of Your hands?

lest at any time [the enemy] seize my soul as a lion, while there is none to ransom, nor to save.