If I am exalted, You hunt me like a lion, and return to show Yourself wondrously to me.

You renew Your witnesses against me, and increase Your indignation toward me; changes and war are with me.

You who tear yourself in anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you? Or shall the rock be removed from its place?

Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be no one to deliver.

He was a bear lying in wait for me, a lion in secret places.

For I am to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah; I, even I, tear and go away; I take away, and no one rescues.

with the hypocrites, mockers, for a cake, they gnashed at me with their teeth.

The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.

All your enemies have opened their mouth against you; they hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we waited for. We have found it, we have seen it.

Why do You hide Your face, and regard me as Your enemy?

You put my feet in the stocks, and watch all my paths. You set a limit for the soles of my feet;

He has also kindled His wrath against me, and He counts me as one of His enemies.

Do not rejoice against me, O my enemy; for if I fall, I shall arise. For if I sit in darkness, Jehovah is a light to me.