⁴⁰ when they crouch in their dens^(A)
    or lie in wait in a thicket?^(B)

⁸ The animals take cover;^(A)
    they remain in their dens.^(B)

⁹ Like a lion they crouch and lie down,
    like a lioness^(A)—who dares to rouse them?

“May those who bless you be blessed^(B)
    and those who curse you be cursed!”^(C)

²⁴ The people rise like a lioness;^(A)
    they rouse themselves like a lion^(B)
that does not rest till it devours its prey
    and drinks the blood^(C) of its victims.”

⁹ You are a lion’s^(A) cub,^(B) Judah;^(C)
    you return from the prey,^(D) my son.
Like a lion he crouches and lies down,
    like a lioness—who dares to rouse him?