Reared

I went after it, struck it down, and delivered the lamb from its mouth. If it reared up against me, I would grab it by its fur, strike it down, and kill it.

…though from my youth I reared him as would a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow—

See how Your enemies rage, how Your foes have reared their heads.

Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has begotten these for me? I was bereaved and barren; I was exiled and rejected. So who has reared them? Look, I was left all alone, so where did they come from?’”

You summoned my terrors on every side, as for the day of an appointed feast. In the day of the LORD’s anger no one escaped or survived; my enemy has destroyed those I nurtured and reared.

…and say: ‘What was your mother? A lioness among the lions! She lay down among the young lions; she reared her cubs.