whelps

For, (said Hushai,) thou knowest thy father and his men, that they bee mightie men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a beare robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father is a man of warre, and will not lodge with the people.

1611 marginal noteHeb. bitter of soule.

The old Lyon perisheth for lacke of pray, and the stout Lyons whelpes are scattered abroad.

The lyons whelps haue not troden it, nor the fierce lyon passed by it.

Let a beare robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather then a foole in his folly.

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 shee brought vp one of her whelps: it became a yong lion, & it learned to catch the pray, it deuoured men.

Now when she saw that shee had waited, and her hope was lost, then she tooke another of her whelps, and made him a yong lion.

I will meet them as a beare that is bereaued of her whelpes, and will rent the kall of their heart, and there will I deuoure them like a Lion: the wilde beast shall teare them.

1611 marginal noteHebr. the beast of the field.

The Lion did teare in pieces enough for his whelpes, and strangled for his Lionesses, and filled his holes with pray, and his dens with rauine.