lions
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5And one of the elders said to me: “Weep not. Behold, the lion from the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has prevailed to open the book and to break its seven seals.”
8Be sober and vigilant. For your adversary, the devil, is like a roaring lion, traveling around and seeking those whom he might devour.
1The impious flees, though no one pursues. But the just, like a confident lion, shall be without dread.
10They will walk after the Lord; he will roar like a lion. For he himself will roar, and the sons of the sea will dread.
12Like the roaring of a lion, so also is the wrath of a king. And his cheerfulness is like the dew upon the grass.
17But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, so that through me the preaching would be accomplished, and so that all the Gentiles would hear. And I was freed from the mouth of the lion.
30a lion, the strongest of beasts, who fears nothing that he meets,
11The rich have been needy and hungry, but those who seek the Lord will not be deprived of any good thing.
21The young lions will roar, while searching for and seizing their meal from God.
4For the Lord says this to me: In the same way that a lion roars, and a young lion is over his prey, and though a multitude of shepherds may meet him, he will not dread their voice, nor be afraid of their number, so will the Lord of hosts descend in order to battle upon mount Zion and upon its hill.
12The lion seized enough for his young, and killed enough for his lionesses, and he filled his caves with prey, and his den with spoils.
14For I will be like a lioness to Ephraim, and like a lion’s offspring to the house of Judah. I myself will seize and go forth. I will take away, and there is no one who can rescue.