⁹     they lurk in secret like a lion in its den;
they lurk that they may seize the poor;
    they seize the poor and drag them off in their net.^(A)

⁸ Their widows became more numerous
    than the sand of the seas;
I have brought against the mothers of youths
    a destroyer at noonday;
I have made anguish and terror
    fall upon her suddenly.

⁹ As robbers lie in wait^[a] for someone,
    so the priests are banded together;^[b]
they murder on the road to Shechem;
    they commit a monstrous crime.^(A)