Jeremiah 51:38

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“They will roar together like young lions; they will growl like lion cubs.”

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BSBPD

“They will roar together like young lions; they will growl like lion cubs.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions’ whelps.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions’ whelps.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Together as young lions they roar, They have shaken themselves as lions' whelps.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Jeremiah 51:38 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 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.
  2. Job 4:10The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.
  3. Psalms 34:10Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
  4. Psalms 58:6O God, shatter their teeth in their mouths; O LORD, tear out the fangs of the lions.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Nahum 2:11Where 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?
  8. 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.

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