A wicked ruler over a helpless people is like a roaring lion or a charging bear.

暴虐的君王辖制贫民，好像吼叫的狮子、觅食的熊。

邪恶的君王压制贫民，好像吼叫的狮子，又如觅食的熊。

邪恶的君王压制贫民，好像吼叫的狮子，又如觅食的熊。

暴虐的君王辖制穷人，如咆哮的狮、觅食的熊。

残暴的统治者辖制贫民，就像吼叫的狮子，又像饥饿觅食的熊。

邪恶的管辖者统治贫弱的民众，就如咆哮的狮子、猛冲的熊。

暴虐的君王轄制貧民，好像吼叫的獅子、覓食的熊。

邪惡的君王壓制貧民，好像吼叫的獅子，又如覓食的熊。

邪惡的君王壓制貧民，好像吼叫的獅子，又如覓食的熊。

暴虐的君王轄制窮人，如咆哮的獅、覓食的熊。

殘暴的統治者轄制貧民，就像吼叫的獅子，又像飢餓覓食的熊。

惡的統治者轄制貧民，像吼叫的獅子、往來覓食的熊。

邪惡的管轄者統治貧弱的民眾，就如咆哮的獅子、猛衝的熊。

暴君制貧民、如咆哮之獅、覓食之熊、

暴君虐貧民、若咆哮之獅、饑餓之熊。

暴君轄制貧民、如咆哮之獅、饑餓之熊、

Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a helpless people.

An evil person who rules over helpless people is like a roaring lion or an angry bear.

Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a poor people.

A wicked ruler is as dangerous to the poor as a roaring lion or an attacking bear.

A wicked ruler over a helpless people is like a roaring lion or a charging bear.

Like a roaring lion and a rushing bear Is a wicked ruler over a poor people.

Like a roaring lion and a charging bear Is a wicked ruler over poor people.

As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear, So is a wicked ruler over a poor people.

[ As] a roaring lion, and a ranging bear;[ so is] a wicked ruler over the poor people.

Like a roaring lion or a roving bear, so is a wicked ruler over a poor people.

As a roaring lion or a charging bear, so is a wicked ruler over helpless people.

Then Herod, when he saw that he had been outwitted by the wise men, flew into a rage. He gave orders to massacre all the male children in and around Bethlehem who were two years old and under, in keeping with the time he had learned from the wise men.

A king’s rage is like the roaring of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

A king’s terrible wrath is like the roaring of a lion; anyone who provokes him endangers himself.

Be serious! Be alert! Your adversary the Devil is prowling around like a roaring lion, looking for anyone he can devour.

and made their lives bitter with difficult labor in brick and mortar and in all kinds of fieldwork. They ruthlessly imposed all this work on them.Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah,“ When you help the Hebrew women give birth, observe them as they deliver. If the child is a son, kill him, but if it’s a daughter, she may live.”

Manasseh also shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem with it from one end to another. This was in addition to his sin that he caused Judah to commit. Consequently, they did what was evil in the Lord’s sight.

Pharaoh then commanded all his people:“ You must throw every son born to the Hebrews into the Nile, but let every daughter live.”

Then the king ordered the guards standing by him,“ Turn and kill the priests of the Lord because they sided with David. For they knew he was fleeing, but they didn’t tell me.” But the king’s servants would not lift a hand to execute the priests of the Lord.So the king said to Doeg,“ Go and execute the priests!” So Doeg the Edomite went and executed the priests himself. On that day, he killed 85 men who wore linen ephods.He also struck down Nob, the city of the priests, with the sword— both men and women, children and infants, oxen, donkeys, and sheep.

And when he learned of Mordecai’s ethnic identity, Haman decided not to do away with Mordecai alone. He planned to destroy all of Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout Ahasuerus’s kingdom.In the first month, the month of Nisan, in King Ahasuerus’s twelfth year, Pur( that is, the lot) was cast before Haman for each day in each month, and it fell on the twelfth month, the month Adar.Then Haman informed King Ahasuerus,“ There is one ethnic group, scattered throughout the peoples in every province of your kingdom, yet living in isolation. Their laws are different from everyone else’s and they do not obey the king’s laws. It is not in the king’s best interest to tolerate them.If the king approves, let an order be drawn up authorizing their destruction, and I will pay 375 tons of silver to the accountants for deposit in the royal treasury.”The king removed his signet ring from his finger and gave it to Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of the Jewish people.

He turned around, looked at them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. Then two female bears came out of the woods and mauled 42 of the children.

I will attack them like a bear robbed of her cubs and tear open the rib cage over their hearts. I will devour them there like a lioness, like a wild beast that would rip them open.

Better for a man to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool in his foolishness.

At that time, starting from Tirzah, Menahem attacked Tiphsah, all who were in it, and its territory. Because they wouldn’t surrender, he attacked it and ripped open all the pregnant women.

Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, for he is determined to follow what is worthless.