Like cows gathered together, the devotees, ever-flowing, proceed; they sought and found the long-sought one, like a lion in the waters, famed.

The benignant and long-lived deities have discovered you, Agni, when required to go against their constant and assembled foes, hidden in the waters like a lion (in a cave).

Him who had passed beyond his foes, beyond continual pursuits, Him the unerring Ones, observant, found in floods, couched like a lion in his lair.