³⁸ Like a lion ^(A)he has left his lair,
    for their land has become a waste
because of ^(B)the sword of the oppressor,
    ^(C)and because of his fierce anger.”

^7 (A)A lion has gone up from his thicket,
    a destroyer of nations has set out;
    he has gone out from his place
to make your land a waste;
    your cities will be ruins
    ^(B)without inhabitant.

⁷ So ^(A)I am to them like a lion;
    ^(B)like a leopard I will lurk beside the way.
⁸ I will fall upon them ^(C)like a bear robbed of her cubs;
    I will tear open their breast,
and there I will devour them like a lion,
    ^(D)as a wild beast would rip them open.

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

^8 (A)Shall not the land tremble on this account,
    and everyone mourn who dwells in it,
^(B)and all of it rise like the Nile,
    and be tossed about ^(C)and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?”