Give me eloquent speech in my mouth before the lion: turn his heart to hate him that fighteth against us, that there may be an end of him, and of all that are likeminded to him:
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Lion. This expression seems not sufficiently respectful. (Capellus)
But why might not Esther use it with regard to one, who was raging against her people more than any lion, as St. Paul applies it to Nero, probably after her example? (Houbigant) (2 Timothy iv. 17.)
David also thus styles Saul and his persecutors in general, Psalm vii. 3. (Calmet)
