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Nahum 2:11

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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?

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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.


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


The  princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are wolves of the night, which leave nothing for   the morning.


Woe to the city of blood, totally deceitful, full of plunder, never without prey.


‘Look, it will be like a lion coming from the thickets  , of the Jordan to the watered grazing land. I will chase Babylon  away from her land in a flash. I will appoint whoever is chosen for her. For who is like me? Who will issue me a summons? Who is the shepherd who can stand against me? ’


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.


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.


For this is what the Lord said to me: As a lion or young lion growls over its prey when a band of shepherds is called out against it, and it is not terrified by their shouting or subdued by their noise, so the Lord of Armies will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its hill.


Judah is a young lion   – my son, you return from the kill. He crouches; he lies down like a lion or a lioness #– #who dares to rouse him?


A people rise up like a lioness; they rouse themselves like a lion. They will not lie down until they devour the prey and drink the blood of the slain.


‘Son of man, lament  for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him, “You compare yourself to a lion of the nations, but  you are like a monster  , in the seas. You thrash about in your rivers, churn up the waters with your feet, and muddy the   rivers.


They will shepherd  the land of Assyria with the sword, the land of Nimrod  with a drawn blade. So he will rescue us  from Assyria when it invades our land, when it marches against our territory.


The lion mauled whatever its cubs needed and strangled prey for its lionesses. It filled up its dens with the kill, and its lairs with mauled prey.


Therefore everyone’s hands will become weak, and every man will lose heart.


Nations writhe in horror before them; all faces turn pale.





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