For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.

For I am like a lion to Ephraim and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear them to pieces and then go away. I will carry them off where no one can rescue them.

Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them:

So like a lion I will pounce on them; like a leopard I will lurk by the path.