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.

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

[ 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.

When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi. (niv)

A king’s rage is like the roar of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass. (niv)

A king’s wrath strikes terror like the roar of a lion; those who anger him forfeit their lives. (niv)

Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. (niv)

They made their lives bitter with harsh labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their harsh labor the Egyptians worked them ruthlessly.The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah,“ When you are helping the Hebrew women during childbirth on the delivery stool, if you see that the baby is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live.” (niv)

Moreover, Manasseh also shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem from end to end— besides the sin that he had caused Judah to commit, so that they did evil in the eyes of the Lord. (niv)

Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people:“ Every Hebrew boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live.” (niv)

Then the king ordered the guards at his side:“ Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, because they too have sided with David. They knew he was fleeing, yet they did not tell me.” But the king’s officials were unwilling to raise a hand to strike the priests of the Lord.The king then ordered Doeg,“ You turn and strike down the priests.” So Doeg the Edomite turned and struck them down. That day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.He also put to the sword Nob, the town of the priests, with its men and women, its children and infants, and its cattle, donkeys and sheep. (niv)

Yet having learned who Mordecai’s people were, he scorned the idea of killing only Mordecai. Instead Haman looked for a way to destroy all Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout the whole kingdom of Xerxes.In the twelfth year of King Xerxes, in the first month, the month of Nisan, the pur( that is, the lot) was cast in the presence of Haman to select a day and month. And the lot fell on the twelfth month, the month of Adar.Then Haman said to King Xerxes,“ There is a certain people dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom who keep themselves separate. Their customs are different from those of all other people, and they do not obey the king’s laws; it is not in the king’s best interest to tolerate them.If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to destroy them, and I will give ten thousand talents of silver to the king’s administrators for the royal treasury.”So the king took his signet ring from his finger and gave it to Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews. (niv)

He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the Lord. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys. (niv)

Like a bear robbed of her cubs, I will attack them and rip them open; like a lion I will devour them— a wild animal will tear them apart. (niv)

Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool bent on folly. (niv)

At that time Menahem, starting out from Tirzah, attacked Tiphsah and everyone in the city and its vicinity, because they refused to open their gates. He sacked Tiphsah and ripped open all the pregnant women. (niv)

Ephraim is oppressed, trampled in judgment, intent on pursuing idols. (niv)