"Who set the wild donkey free? Who loosed the bonds of the onager,

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

A wild donkey used to the wilderness, [That] sniffs at the wind in her desire; In her time of mating, 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, [Like] a wild donkey alone by itself; Ephraim has hired lovers.

The murderer rises with the light; 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 make [someone] fall.

They prepare 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 iniquity, And work out evil on their beds! At morning light they practice it, Because it is in the power of their hand.

Her princes in her midst [are] roaring lions; Her judges [are] evening wolves That leave not a bone till morning.

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

And when it was day, some of the Jews banded together and bound themselves under an oath, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.

Because the hungry eat up his harvest, Taking it even from the thorns, And a snare snatches their substance.

The tents of robbers prosper, And those who provoke God are secure -- In what God provides by His hand.

He shall be a wild 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."