Nahum 2:11
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11 What became of the lions’ den,
the cave of the young lions,
where the lion goes,
and the lion’s cubs, with no one to disturb them?(A)
Isaiah 5:29
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29 Their roaring is like a lion;
like young lions they roar;
they growl and seize their prey;
they carry it off, and no one can rescue.(A)
Jeremiah 2:15
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15 The lions have roared against him;
they have roared loudly.
They have made his land a waste;
his cities are in ruins, without inhabitant.(A)
Zephaniah 3:3
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3 The officials within it
are roaring lions;
its judges are evening wolves
that leave nothing until the morning.(A)
Nahum 3:1
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Ruin Imminent and Inevitable
3 Woe, city of bloodshed,
utterly deceitful, full of plunder—
no end to the prey!(A)
Ezekiel 19:2-8
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2 and say:
What a lioness was your mother
among lions!
She lay down among young lions,
rearing her cubs.(A)
3 She raised up one of her cubs;
he became a young lion,
and he learned to catch prey;
he devoured humans.(B)
4 The nations heard about him;
he was caught in their pit,
and they brought him with hooks
to the land of Egypt.(C)
5 When she saw that she was thwarted,
that her hope was lost,
she took another of her cubs
and made him a young lion.(D)
6 He prowled among the lions;
he became a young lion,
and he learned to catch prey;
he devoured people.(E)
7 And he ravaged their strongholds[a]
and laid waste their towns;
the land was appalled, and all in it,
at the sound of his roaring.(F)
8 The nations set upon him
from the provinces all around;
they spread their net over him;
he was caught in their pit.(G)
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- 19.7 Tg: Heb his widows
Jeremiah 50:44
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44 Like a lion coming up from the thickets of the Jordan to a perennial pasture, I will suddenly chase them away from her, and I will appoint over her whomever I choose.[a] For who is like me? Who can summon me? Who is the shepherd who can stand before me?(A)
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- 50.44 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Jeremiah 50:17
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17 Israel is a hunted sheep driven away by lions. First the king of Assyria devoured it, and now at the end King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon has gnawed its bones.(A)
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Jeremiah 4:7
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7 A lion has gone up from its thicket;
a destroyer of nations has set out;
he has gone out from his place
to make your land a waste;
your cities will be ruins
without inhabitant.(A)
Isaiah 31:4
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4 For thus the Lord said to me,
“As a lion or a young lion growls over its prey
and, when a band of shepherds is called out against it,
is not terrified by their shouting
or daunted at their noise,
so the Lord of hosts will come down
to fight upon Mount Zion and upon its hill.(A)
Job 4:10-11
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10 The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion,
and the teeth of the young lions are broken.(A)
11 The strong lion perishes for lack of prey,
and the whelps of the lioness are scattered.(B)
Genesis 49:9
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9 Judah is a lion’s whelp;
from the prey, my son, you have gone up.
He crouches down, he stretches out like a lion,
like a lioness—who dares rouse him up?(A)
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