Who set the wild donkey free? Who loosed the bands of the wild ass,

He scorns the tumult of the city; he does not heed the clamor of the driver.

A wild ass used to the wilderness, in her cravings she sniffs at the wind; when she is in heat who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they will find her.

For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself. Ephraim has hired lovers.

The murderer rises at daylight; he kills the poor and needy; and in the night he is like a thief.

For they do not sleep unless they have done evil, and their sleep is taken away unless they cause someone to fall.

For they have prepared their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their baker sleeps all night; in the morning it burns like a flaming fire.

Woe to those who devise wickedness and do evil on their beds! In the morning light they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Her rulers within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves, that do not leave the bones till the morning.

Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas to the Praetorium, and it was early. But they themselves did not go into the Praetorium, that they should not be defiled, but that they might eat the Passover.

And when it was day, some of the Jews made a pact and bound themselves under an oath, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they should kill Paul.

The hungry eat up his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and a snare snatches their wealth.

The tents of plunderers prosper, and those who provoke the Mighty God are secure, as God brings into his hand.

He shall be a wild ass of a man; his hand shall be against every man, and every man's hand against him. And he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

By your sword you shall live, and you shall serve your brother; and it shall come to pass, when you become restless, that you shall break his yoke from your neck.