The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.

Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

And say, What is thy mother? A lioness she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.

and say, What was your mother? A lioness she couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her cubs.

Of Gad he said, He who enlarges Gad is blessed. He dwells as a lioness, and tears the arm, yes, the crown of the head.

Kemal Taher from Erbil remarked, I don t know what to say about this lioness of Kurdistan, wishing them success on the battlefield, May God protect you all .

He couched, he lay down as a lion, as a lioness who shall rouse him up? Everyone who blesses you is blessed. Everyone who curses you is cursed.

For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness.

Judah is a lion's cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up?

Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, the lion's cubs, and no one made them afraid?

Behold, the people rises up as a lioness, As a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain.

Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, and seize their prey and carry it off, and there will be no one to deliver.

I will meet them like a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, and will tear the covering of their heart. There I will devour them like a lioness. The wild animal will tear them.

The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people.