lions

The young lyons roared vpon him and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burnt without inhabitant.

1611 marginal noteHeb. gaue out their voyce.

¶ Israel is a scattered sheepe, the lyons haue driuen him away: first the king of Assyria hath deuoured him, and last this Nebuchad-rezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.

They shall roare together like lions; they shall yell as lions whelps.

1611 marginal noteOr, shake themselues.

And say, What is thy mother? a lyonesse: shee lay downe among lions, she nourished her whelpes among yong lions.

And he went vp and downe among the lions, he became a yong lion, and learned to catch the pray, and deuoured men.

Sheba, and Dedan, and the marchants of Tarshish, with all the young lyons thereof, shall say vnto thee, Art thou come to take a spoile? hast thou gathered thy company to take a praye? to carie away siluer and gold, to take away cattell and goods, to take a great spoile?

All the Presidents of the kingdome, the gouernours, and the Princes, the counsellers and the captaines haue consulted together to establish a royall statute, and to make a firme decree, that whosoeuer shall aske a petition of any God or man for thirty dayes, saue of thee, O King, hee shall be cast into the denne of Lions.

1611 marginal noteOr, interdict.

Then they came neere, and spake before the king concerning the kings decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that euery man that shall aske a petition of any God or man, within thirty dayes, saue of thee, O king, shalbe cast into the denne of Lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.

Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the denne of Lions: now the king spake and saide vnto Daniel; Thy God, whom thou seruest continually, he will deliuer thee.

Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste vnto the den of Lyons.