The lion; either the devil, that raging and roaring lion, who did many ways assault and annoy him; or his lionlike enemies.
Heard me, i.e. answered and delivered me.
Unicorn; a strong, and fierce, and untamable wild beast; though the learned are not agreed about the kind of it. See of it Deu_33:17Job_39:9,10 Psa 92:10 Isa_34:7, and my Latin Synopsis on Num_23:22. For it is not worth while to trouble the unlearned reader with such disputes.