⁶ Break the teeth in their mouths, O God;^(A)
    Lord, tear out the fangs of those lions!^(B)

⁷ Arise,^(A) Lord!
    Deliver me,^(B) my God!
Strike^(C) all my enemies on the jaw;
    break the teeth^(D) of the wicked.

¹⁷ I broke the fangs of the wicked
    and snatched the victims^(A) from their teeth.^(B)

⁸ The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations,
    in the midst of many peoples,
like a lion among the beasts of the forest,^(A)
    like a young lion among flocks of sheep,
which mauls and mangles^(B) as it goes,
    and no one can rescue.^(C)

¹⁴ For I will be like a lion^(A) to Ephraim,
    like a great lion to Judah.
I will tear them to pieces^(B) and go away;
    I will carry them off, with no one to rescue them.^(C)

“As a lion^(A) growls,
    a great lion over its prey—
and though a whole band of shepherds^(B)
    is called together against it,
it is not frightened by their shouts
    or disturbed by their clamor^(C)—
so the Lord Almighty will come down^(D)
    to do battle on Mount Zion and on its heights.

¹³ You will tread on the lion and the cobra;
    you will trample the great lion and the serpent.^(A)

¹² They are like a lion^(A) hungry for prey,^(B)
    like a fierce lion crouching in cover.