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How Many Are Your Works, O LORD!

Psalms 104:21

In 11 translations

BSB
The young lions roar for their prey and seek their food from God.
KJV
The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.
WEB
The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God.
ASV
The young lions roar after their prey, And seek their food from God.
LSV
The young lions are roaring for prey, || And to seek their food from God.
YLT
The young lions are roaring for prey, And to seek from God their food.
DBY
The young lions roar after the prey, and to seek their food from God.El
DRC103:21
The young lions roaring after their prey, and seeking their meat from God.
GNV
The lions roare after their praye, and seeke their meate at God.
JPS
The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God.
LXXE103:21
even young lions roaring for prey, and to seek meat for themselves from God.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
הַ֭כְּפִירִים שֹׁאֲגִ֣ים לַטָּ֑רֶף וּלְבַקֵּ֖שׁ מֵאֵ֣ל אָכְלָֽם׃
LXX-Br103:21
Σκυμνοι ὠρυόμενοι ἁρπάσαι, καὶ ζητῆσαι παρὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ βρῶσιν αὐτοῖς.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Joel 1:20Even the beasts of the field pant for You, for the streams of water have dried up, and fire has consumed the open pastures.
  • Job 38:39Can you hunt the prey for a lioness or satisfy the hunger of young lions
  • Psalms 34:10Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
  • Ezekiel 19:2–14and say: ‘What was your mother? A lioness among the lions! She lay down among the young lions; she reared her cubs. She brought up one of her cubs, and he became a young lion. After learning to tear his prey, he…
  • Joel 2:22Do not be afraid, O beasts of the field, for the open pastures have turned green, the trees bear their fruit, and the fig tree and vine yield their best.
  • Job 38:41Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God as they wander about for lack of food?
  • Joel 1:18How the cattle groan! The herds wander in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.
  • Amos 3:4Does a lion roar in the forest when he has no prey? Does a young lion growl in his den if he has caught nothing?
  • Isaiah 31:4For this is what the LORD has said to me: “Like a lion roaring or a young lion over its prey— and though a band of shepherds is called out against it, it is not terrified by their shouting or subdued by their clamor—…
  • Psalms 147:9He provides food for the animals, and for the young ravens when they call.
  • Psalms 145:15The eyes of all look to You, and You give them their food in season.

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