Isaiah 5:29

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

They roar and growl like fierce young lions as they grab their victims and drag them off where no one can rescue them.

Cross References

Genesis 49:9

My son, you are a lion ready to eat your victim! You are terribly fierce; no one will bother you.

Psalm 50:22

You have ignored me! So pay close attention or I will tear you apart, and no one can help you.

Isaiah 10:6

to beat down you godless people. I am angry with you, and I will send him to attack you. He will take what he wants and walk on you like mud in the streets.

Isaiah 31:4

The LORD All-Powerful said to me, “I will roar and attack like a fearless lion not frightened by the shouts of shepherds trying to protect their sheep. That's how I will come down and fight on Mount Zion.

Isaiah 35:9

No lions or other wild animals will come near that road; only those the LORD has saved will travel there.

Isaiah 42:22

But his people were trapped and imprisoned in holes with no one to rescue them. All they owned had been taken, and no one was willing to give it back.

Isaiah 47:15

These are the fortune-tellers you have done business with all your life. But they don't know where they are going, and they can't save you.

Jeremiah 2:15

Enemies roared like lions and destroyed your land; towns lie burnt and empty.

Jeremiah 4:7

An army will come out, like a lion from its den. It will destroy nations and leave your towns empty and in ruins.”

Jeremiah 49:19

I will attack you like a lion from the forest, attacking sheep in a meadow along the Jordan. In a moment the flock runs, and the land is empty. Who will I choose to attack you? I will do it myself! No one can force me to fight or chase me away.

Jeremiah 50:17

Israel is a flock of sheep scattered by hungry lions. The king of Assyria first gobbled Israel up. Then Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylonia, crunched on Israel's bones.

Jeremiah 51:38

The Babylonians roar and growl like young lions.

Hosea 11:10

I, the LORD, will roar like a lion, and my children will return, trembling from the west.

Amos 3:8

Everyone is terrified when a lion roars— and ordinary people become prophets when the LORD God speaks.

Micah 5:8

At present they are scattered, but later they will attack, as though they were fierce lions pouncing on sheep. Their enemies will be torn to shreds, with no one to save them;

Nahum 2:11

What happened to this city? They were safer there than powerful lions in a den, with no one to disturb them.

Zephaniah 3:3

Its officials are roaring lions, its judges are wolves; in the evening they attack, by morning nothing is left.

Zechariah 11:3

Listen! Shepherds are crying. Their glorious pastures have been ruined. Listen! Lions are roaring. The forests of the Jordan Valley are no more to be found.

Numbers 24:9

Like a lion you lie down, resting after an attack. Who would dare disturb you? “Anyone who blesses you will be blessed; anyone who curses you will be cursed.”