Nahum 2:11

²⁹Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, and seize their prey and carry it off, and there will be no one to deliver.

¹⁵The young lions have roared at him and raised their voices. They have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.

⁴⁴Behold, the enemy will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan against the strong habitation; for I will suddenly make them run away from it. Whoever is chosen, I will appoint him over it, for who is like me? Who will appoint me a time? Who is the shepherd who can stand before me?”

⁴For the LORD says to me, “As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds is called together against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for their noise, so the LORD of Armies will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its heights.

⁹Judah is a lion’s cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up?

³Her princes within her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.

²and say, ‘What was your mother? A lioness. She couched among lions, in the middle of the young lions she nourished her cubs. ³She brought up one of her cubs. He became a young lion. He learned to catch the prey. He devoured men. ⁴The nations also heard of him. He was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt. ⁵“‘Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her cubs, and made him a young lion. ⁶He went up and down among the lions. He became a young lion. He learned to catch the prey. He devoured men. ⁷He knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities. The land was desolate with its fullness, because of the noise of his roaring. ⁸Then the nations attacked him on every side from the provinces. They spread their net over him. He was taken in their pit.

¹⁷“Israel is a hunted sheep. The lions have driven him away. First, the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.”

¹⁰The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken. ¹¹The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.

¹Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery—no end to the prey.