Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageLook — a people that rises like a lioness, that lifts itself like a lion! It will not lie down until it devours the prey and drinks the blood of the slain.'
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GSee — a people rising like a laviy, lifting itself up like an ari! It will not lie down until it has devoured its prey and drunk the blood of the slain.'
KJV
King James VersionBehold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleBehold, the people rise like a lioness; they rouse themselves like a lion, not resting until they devour their prey and drink the blood of the slain.”
Footnotes
לָבִיא (laviy) and אֲרִי (ari) — Two distinct Hebrew lion terms in deliberate sequence. Laviy typically denotes the lioness or the lion at the height of its power (Gen. 49:9; Deut. 33:20; Isa. 30:6), carrying overtones of fierce, relentless, almost maternal ferocity; ari is the more common word for the adult male lion in his kingly dominance. The pairing is not redundant — it layers both the unstoppable drive of the hunting lioness and the sovereign power of the ruling lion onto Israel's identity. Crucially, this oracle directly echoes Ya'akov's blessing of Yehudah: 'Yehudah crouches like a lion, like a laviy' (Gen. 49:9), threading a Messianic cord from the patriarchal blessings through a compelled pagan seer, toward the Lion of the tribe of Yehudah (Rev. 5:5). FOG retains laviy and ari; FOG Message renders 'lioness' and 'lion' to make the gendered pairing vivid in English.
