Lion: Fierceness of

The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.

Proud beasts have never trodden it; no lion has ever prowled over it.

…or they will shred my soul like a lion and tear me to pieces with no one to rescue me.

The slacker says, “There is a lion outside! I will be slain in the streets!”

The young lions have roared at him; they have sounded their voices. They have laid waste his land; his cities lie in ruins, without inhabitant.

Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan to the watered pasture. For in an instant I will chase Edom from her land. Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this? For who is like Me, and who can challenge Me? What shepherd can stand against Me?”

Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan to the watered pasture. For in an instant I will chase Babylon from her land. Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this? For who is like Me, and who can challenge Me? What shepherd can stand against Me?”

Like a bear robbed of her cubs I will attack them, and I will tear open their chests. There I will devour them like a lion, like a wild beast tearing them apart.