⁶ Since they shed the blood
    of your holy people and your prophets,
you have given them blood to drink.
    It is their just reward.”

² “What is your mother?
    A lioness among lions!
She lay down among the young lions
    and reared her cubs.
³ She raised one of her cubs
    to become a strong young lion.
He learned to hunt and devour prey,
    and he became a man-eater.

¹⁰ The bloodthirsty hate blameless people,
    but the upright seek to help them.^[a]

⁴ Anger is cruel, and wrath is like a flood,
    but jealousy is even more dangerous.

⁷ A curse on their anger, for it is fierce;
    a curse on their wrath, for it is cruel.
I will scatter them among the descendants of Jacob;
    I will disperse them throughout Israel.