Babylon’s Punishment
Jeremiah 51:38
In 11 translations
- BSB
- They will roar together like young lions; they will growl like lion cubs.
- KJV
- They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions’ whelps.yell: or, shake themselves
- WEB
- They will roar together like young lions. They will growl as lions’ cubs.
- ASV
- They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions’ whelps.
- LSV
- They roar together as young lions, || They have shaken themselves as lions’ whelps.
- YLT
- Together as young lions they roar, They have shaken themselves as lions' whelps.
- DBY
- They shall roar together like young lions, growl as lions' whelps.
- DRC
- They shall roar together like lions, they shall shake their manes like young lions.
- GNV
- They shall rore together like lions, and yell as the lyons whelpes.
- JPS
- They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions' whelps.
- LXXE28:38
- For they rose up together as lions, and as lions' whelps.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- יַחְדָּ֖ו כַּכְּפִרִ֣ים יִשְׁאָ֑גוּ נָעֲר֖וּ כְּגוֹרֵ֥י אֲרָיֽוֹת׃
- LXX-Br28:38
- Ὅτι ἅμα ὡς λέοντες ἐξηγέρθησαν, καὶ ὡς σκύμνοι λεόντων.
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Cross-references most cited first
- Jeremiah 2:15The young lions have roared at him; they have growled with a loud voice. They have laid waste his land; his cities lie in ruins, without inhabitant.
- Psalms 58:6O God, shatter their teeth in their mouths; O LORD, tear out the fangs of the lions.
- Zechariah 11:3Listen to the wailing of the shepherds, for their glory is in ruins. Listen to the roaring of the young lions, for the thickets of the Jordan are destroyed.
- Psalms 34:10Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
- Nahum 2:11–13Where is the lions’ lair or the feeding ground of the young lions, where the lion and lioness prowled with their cubs, with nothing to frighten them away? The lion mauled enough for its cubs and strangled prey for the…
- Isaiah 35:9No lion will be there, and no vicious beast will go up on it. Such will not be found there, but the redeemed will walk upon it.
- Judges 16:20Then she called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” When Samson awoke from his sleep, he thought, “I will escape as I did before and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the LORD had departed from him.
- Job 4:10–11The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken. The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
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Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 28:38 in some Bibles
- 51:38 in most Bibles