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Jeremiah 2:15

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

The young lions have roared at him; they have roared loudly. They have laid waste his land. His cities are in ruins, without inhabitants.

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A lion has gone up from his thicket; a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to make your land a waste. Your cities will be reduced to uninhabited ruins.


Israel is a stray lamb, chased by lions. The first who devoured him was the king of Assyria; the last who crushed his bones was King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.


I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a jackals’ den. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, an uninhabited place.


Their roaring is like a lion’s; they roar like young lions; they growl and seize their prey and carry it off, and no one can rescue it.


Your land is desolate, your cities burned down; foreigners devour your fields right in front of you – a desolation, like a place demolished by foreigners.


I have cut off nations; their corner towers  are destroyed. I have laid waste their streets, with no one to pass through. Their cities lie devastated, without a person, without an inhabitant.


Woe, inhabitants of the seacoast, nation of the Cherethites!  , The word of the  Lord is against you, Canaan, land of the Philistines: I will destroy you until there is no one left.


Their silver and their gold will be unable to rescue them on the day of the  Lord’s wrath. The whole earth will be consumed by the fire of his jealousy, for he will make a complete, yes, a horrifying end of all the inhabitants of the earth.


Where is the lions’ lair, or the feeding ground of the young lions, where the lion and lioness prowled, and the lion’s cub, with nothing to frighten them away?


The Lord says: As the shepherd snatches two legs or a piece of an ear from the lion’s mouth, so the Israelites who live in Samaria will be rescued with only the corner of a bed or the  cushion  of a couch.  ,


A lion has roared; who will not fear? The Lord God has spoken; who will not prophesy?


Does a lion roar  in the forest when it has no prey? Does a young lion growl from its lair unless it has captured something?


They will follow the  Lord; he will roar like a lion. When he roars, his children will come trembling from the west.


For I am like a lion to Ephraim and like a young lion to the house of Judah. Yes, I will tear them to pieces and depart. I will carry them off, and no one can rescue them.


‘I will make you a ruin and a disgrace among the nations around you, in the sight of everyone who passes by.


The Lord can no longer bear your evil deeds and the detestable acts you have committed,  so your land has become a waste, a desolation, and an example for cursing, without inhabitant, as you see today.


I am about to give the command #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #and I will bring them back to this city. They will fight against it, capture it, and burn it.  I will make Judah’s cities a desolation, without inhabitant.’


‘This is what the Lord says: In this place, which you say is a ruin,  without people or animals #– #that is, in Judah’s cities and Jerusalem’s streets that are a desolation without people, without inhabitants, and without animals #– #there will be heard again


How dare you prophesy in the name of the Lord, “This temple will become like Shiloh and this city will become an uninhabited ruin”! ’ Then all the people crowded around Jeremiah at the Lord’s temple.


‘As for you, you are to prophesy all these things to them, and say to them: The Lord roars from on high; he makes his voice heard from his holy dwelling. He roars loudly over his grazing land; he calls out with a shout, like those who tread grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.


Therefore, a lion from the forest will strike them down. A wolf from arid plains will ravage them. A leopard  stalks their cities. Anyone who leaves them will be torn to pieces because their rebellious acts are many, their unfaithful deeds numerous.


Look, the Lord is stripping the earth bare and making it desolate. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants:


Then I said, ‘Until when, Lord? ’  And he replied: Until cities lie in ruins without inhabitants, houses are without people, the land is ruined and desolate,


I heard the Lord of Armies say: Indeed, many houses  will become desolate, grand and lovely ones without inhabitants.


The lion may roar and the fierce lion   growl, but the teeth of young lions are broken.


Samson went down to Timnah with his father and mother and came to the vineyards of Timnah. Suddenly a young lion came roaring at him,


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


therefore, prophesy and say, “This is what the Lord God says: Because they have made you desolate and have trampled you from every side, so that you became a possession for the rest of the nations and an object of people’s gossip and slander,


Listen to the wail  of the shepherds, for their glory is destroyed. Listen to the roar of young lions, for the thickets of the Jordan  are   destroyed.


Be warned, Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you; I will make you a desolation, a land without inhabitants.


I will raise weeping and a lament over the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness grazing land, for they have been so scorched that no one passes through. The sound of cattle is no longer heard. From the birds of the sky to the animals, everything has fled #– #they have gone away.


Listen! A noise #– #it is coming – a great commotion  from the land to the north. The cities of Judah will be made desolate, a jackals’ den.


I am going to send for all the families of the north”   #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #”and send for my servant  Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will bring them against this land, against its residents, and against all these surrounding nations, and I will completely destroy them and make them an example of horror  and scorn, and ruins for ever.





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