² lest like ^(A)a lion they tear my soul apart,
    rending it in pieces, with ^(B)none to deliver.

^{13     (A)}I calmed myself^[a] until morning;
like a lion ^(B)he breaks all my bones;
    from day to night you bring me to an end.

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.

¹² A king's wrath is like ^(A)the growling of a lion,
    but his ^(B)favor is like ^(C)dew on the grass.

¹³ they ^(A)open wide their mouths at me,
    like a ravening and roaring lion.