Jeremiah 5:6

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

The people have rebelled and rejected the LORD too many times. So enemies will attack like lions from the forest or wolves from the desert. Those enemies will watch the towns of Judah, and like leopards they will tear to pieces whoever goes outside.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:14

The people of Judah and even the priests who were their leaders became more unfaithful. They followed the disgusting example of the nations around them and made the LORD's holy temple unfit for worship.

Ezra 10:10

Ezra the priest stood up and said: You have broken God's Law by marrying foreign women, and you have made the whole nation guilty!

Ezra 9:6

and prayed: I am much too ashamed to face you, LORD God. Our sins and our guilt have swept over us like a flood that reaches up to the heavens.

Job 10:16

No matter how hard I try, you keep hunting me down like a powerful lion.

Psalm 104:20

and you made the darkness, so the animals in the forest could come out at night.

Psalm 80:13

Now the vine is gobbled up by pigs from the forest and other wild animals.

Isaiah 1:23

Your leaders have rejected me to become friends of crooks; your rulers are looking for gifts and bribes. Widows and orphans never get a fair trial.

Isaiah 59:12

How often have we sinned and turned against you, the LORD God? Our sins condemn us! We have done wrong.

Jeremiah 14:7

Our terrible sins may demand that we be punished. But if you rescue us, LORD, everyone will see how great you are.

Jeremiah 2:15

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

Jeremiah 2:17

It's all your own fault! You stopped following me, the LORD your God,

Jeremiah 2:19

Your own sins will punish you, because it was a bitter mistake for you to reject me without fear of punishment. I, the LORD All-Powerful, have spoken.

Jeremiah 2:31

Now listen to what I say! Did I abandon you in the desert or surround you with darkness? You are my people, yet you have told me, “We'll do what we want, and we refuse to worship you!”

Jeremiah 30:14

Your friends have forgotten you; they don't care any more. Even I have acted like an enemy. And because your sins are horrible and countless, I will be cruel as I punish you. So don't bother to cry out for relief from your pain.

Jeremiah 30:24

I won't calm down until I have finished what I have decided to do. Some day, you will understand what I mean.

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 8:5

So why do you refuse to come back to me? Why do you hold so tightly to your false gods?

Jeremiah 8:7

Storks, doves, swallows, and thrushes all know when it's time to fly away for the winter and when to come back. But you, my people, don't know what I demand.

Lamentations 1:5

Enemies now rule the city and live as they please. The LORD has punished Jerusalem because of her awful sins; he has let her people be dragged away.

Ezekiel 16:25

where you disgraced yourself by having sex with anyone who walked by. And you did that more and more every day!

Ezekiel 22:27

Israel's officials are like ferocious wolves, ripping their victims apart. They make a dishonest living by injuring and killing people.

Ezekiel 23:19

Oholibah didn't stop there, but became even more immoral and acted as she had back in Egypt.

Daniel 7:4

The first was like a lion with the wings of an eagle. As I watched, its wings were pulled off. Then it was lifted to an upright position and made to stand on two feet, just like a human, and it was given a human mind.

Daniel 7:6

The third beast was like a leopard—except that it had four wings and four heads. It was given authority to rule.

Hosea 5:14

So I'll become a fierce lion attacking Israel and Judah. I'll snatch and carry off what I want, and no one can stop me.

Habakkuk 1:8

Their cavalry troops are faster than leopards, more ferocious than wolves hunting at sunset, and swifter than hungry eagles suddenly swooping down.

Zephaniah 3:3

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

Numbers 32:14

Now you people of Reuben and Gad are doing the same thing and making the LORD even angrier.

Revelation 13:2

The beast that I saw had the body of a leopard, the feet of a bear, and the mouth of a lion. The dragon handed over its own power and throne and great authority to this beast.