The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions are broken.
Jeremiah 2:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 The lions have roared against him; they have roared loudly. They have made his land a waste; his cities are in ruins, without inhabitant. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The young lions have roared over him and made their voices heard. And they have made his land a waste; his cities are burned ruins without inhabitant. American Standard Version (1901) The young lions have roared upon him, and yelled; and they have made his land waste: his cities are burned up, without inhabitant. Common English Bible Lions roar at him; they growl. They destroy his land and make his towns desolate until nothing is left. Catholic Public Domain Version The lions have roared over him, and they have uttered their voice. They have set his land in solitude; his cities have been burned up, and there is no one who lives in them. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The lions have roared upon him and have made a noise: they have made his land a wilderness. His cities are burnt down: and there is none to dwell in them. |
The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions are broken.
I lie down among lions that greedily devour human prey; their teeth are spears and arrows, their tongues sharp swords.
Your country lies desolate; your cities are burned with fire; in your very presence aliens devour your land; it is desolate, as overthrown by foreigners.
Now the Lord is about to lay waste the earth and make it desolate, and he will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants.
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.
The Lord of hosts has sworn in my hearing: Surely many houses shall be desolate, large and beautiful houses, without inhabitant.
Then I said, “How long, O Lord?” And he said, “Until cities lie waste without inhabitant, and houses without people, and the land is utterly desolate;
Hear, a noise! Listen, it is coming— a great commotion from the land of the north to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a lair of jackals.
You, therefore, shall prophesy to them all these words and say to them: The Lord will roar from on high and from his holy habitation utter his voice; he will roar mightily against his fold and shout like those who tread grapes against all the inhabitants of the earth.
I am going to send for all the tribes of the north, says the Lord, even for King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all these nations around; I will utterly destroy them and make them an object of horror and of hissing and an everlasting disgrace.
Why have you prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying, ‘This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without inhabitant’?” And all the people gathered around Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.
Thus says the Lord: In this place of which you say, “It is a waste without humans or animals,” in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without inhabitants, human or animal, there shall once more be heard
I am going to command, says the Lord, and will bring them back to this city, and they will fight against it and take it and burn it with fire. The towns of Judah I will make a desolation without inhabitant.
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.
The Lord could no longer bear the sight of your evil doings, the abominations that you committed; therefore your land became a desolation and a waste and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is to this day.
Therefore a lion from the forest shall kill them; a wolf from the desert shall destroy them. A leopard is watching against their cities; everyone who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many; their faithlessness is great.
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.
Like lions they shall roar together; they shall growl like lions’ whelps.
Take warning, O Jerusalem, or I shall turn from you in disgust and make you a desolation, an uninhabited land.
Take up weeping and wailing for the mountains and a lamentation for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are laid waste so that no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard; both the birds of the air and the animals have fled and are gone.
I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair of jackals, and I will make the towns of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.
therefore prophesy and say: Thus says the Lord God: Because they made you desolate indeed and crushed you from all sides, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations and an object of gossip and slander among the people,
Moreover, I will make you a desolation and an object of mocking among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.
They shall go after the Lord, who roars like a lion; when he roars, his children shall come trembling from the west.
For I will be like a lion to Ephraim and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear and go away; I will carry off, and no one shall rescue.
Thus says the Lord: As the shepherd rescues from the mouth of the lion two legs or a piece of an ear, so shall the people of Israel who live in Samaria be rescued, with the corner of a couch and part of a bed.
Does a lion roar in the forest when it has no prey? Does a young lion cry out from its den if it has caught nothing?
The lion has roared; who will not fear? The Lord God has spoken; who can but prophesy?
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?
Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to save them on the day of the Lord’s wrath; in the fire of his passion the whole earth shall be consumed, for a full, a terrible end he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.
Woe, inhabitants of the seacoast, you nation of the Cherethites! The word of the Lord is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines, and I will destroy you until no inhabitant is left.
I have cut off nations; their battlements are in ruins; I have laid waste their streets so that no one walks in them; their cities have been made desolate, without people, without inhabitants.
Listen, the wail of the shepherds, for their glory is despoiled! Listen, the roar of the lions, for the thickets of the Jordan are destroyed!
Then Samson went down with his father and mother to Timnah. When he came to the vineyards of Timnah, suddenly a young lion roared at him.