⁹ Like a lion they crouch and lie down,
    like a lioness^(A)—who dares to rouse them?

“May those who bless you be blessed^(B)
    and those who curse you be cursed!”^(C)

“‘What a lioness^(A) was your mother
    among the lions!
She lay down among them
    and reared her cubs.^(B)

¹¹ Where now is the lions’ den,^(A)
    the place where they fed their young,
where the lion and lioness went,
    and the cubs, with nothing to fear?