¹⁷ Let the priests, the servants of the Lord, be weeping between the covered way and the altar, and let them say, Have mercy on your people, O Lord, do not give up your heritage to shame, so that the nations become their rulers: why let them say among the peoples, Where is their God?

¹¹ Where is the lions' hole, the place Where the young lions got their food, Where the lion and the she-lion were walking with their young, without cause for fear?