⁹ Judah is ^(A)a lion’s whelp;
From the prey, my son, you have gone up.
^(B)He ^[a]bows down, he lies down as a lion;
And as a lion, who shall rouse him?

⁹ ‘He^(A) bows down, he lies down as a lion;
And as a lion, who shall rouse him?’

²⁴ Look, a people rises ^(A)like a lioness,
And lifts itself up like a lion;
^(B)It shall not lie down until it devours the prey,
And drinks the blood of the slain.”

⁸ And the remnant of Jacob
Shall be among the Gentiles,
In the midst of many peoples,
Like a ^(A)lion among the beasts of the forest,
Like a young lion among flocks of sheep,
Who, if he passes through,
Both treads down and tears in pieces,
And none can deliver.

¹⁴ For ^(A)I will be like a lion to Ephraim,
And like a young lion to the house of Judah.
^(B)I, even I, will tear them and go away;
I will take them away, and no one shall rescue.