Nahum 2:12 - The Scriptures 2009

¹² The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with prey, and his dens with torn prey.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² The lion tore in pieces enough for his whelps and strangled [prey] for his lionesses; he filled his caves with prey and his dens with what he had seized and carried off.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with prey, and his dens with ravin.

Common English Bible

¹² The lion has torn enough prey for his cubs and strangled enough for his lionesses; he has filled his lairs with prey, his dens with torn flesh.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² The lion seized enough for his young, and killed enough for his lionesses, and he filled his caves with prey, and his den with spoils.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² The lion caught enough for his whelps, and killed for his lionesses: and he filled his holes with prey, and his den with rapine.

Nahum 2:12 Cross References

2 Samuel 17:8

And Ḥushai said, “You know your father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are as bitter in being as a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. And your father is a man of battle, and would not spend the night with the people.

Psalm 17:12

Like a lion who is eager to tear his prey, And as a young lion crouching in cover.

Jeremiah 51:34

“Neḇuḵaḏretstsar the sovereign of Baḇel has devoured us, he has crushed us, he has made us an empty vessel, he has swallowed us up like a monster. He has filled his stomach with my delicacies, he has driven us away.

Nahum 2:11

Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion, the lioness and the lion’s cub walked, with no one to disturb them?

Nahum 2:13

“See, I am against you,” declares יהוה of hosts, “and I shall burn your chariots in smoke, and the sword devour your young lions. And I shall cut off your prey from the earth, and no longer is the voice of your messengers heard.”

Numbers 23:24

“Look, a people rises like a lioness, and lifts itself up like a lion; it lies not down until it devours the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain.”