Jeremiah 5:6

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Wherefore a lion out of the wood hath slain them, a wolf in the evening hath spoiled them, a leopard watcheth for their cities: every one that shall go out thence shall be taken, because their transgressions are multiplied, their rebellions are strengthened.

Cross References

Zephaniah 3:3

Her princes are in the midst of her as roaring lions: her judges are evening wolves, they left nothing for the morning.

Habakkuk 1:8

Their horses are lighter than leopards, and swifter than evening wolves; and their horsemen shall be spread abroad: for their horsemen shall come from afar, they shall fly as an eagle that maketh haste to eat.

Jeremiah 4:7

The lion is come up out of his den, and the robber of nations hath roused himself: he is come forth out of his place to make thy land desolate. Thy cities shall be laid waste, remaining without an inhabitant.

Ezekiel 22:27

Her princes in the midst of her are like wolves ravening the prey to shed blood and to destroy souls and to run after gains through covetousness.

Revelation 13:2

And the beast, which I saw, was like to a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion. And the dragon gave him his own strength, and great power.

Hosea 5:14

For I will be like a lioness to Ephraim, and like a lion's whelp to the house of Juda: I, I will catch, and go: I will take away, and there is none that can rescue.

Ezekiel 23:19

For she multiplied her fornications, remembering the days of her youth, in which she played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 16:25

At every head of the way thou hast set up a sign of thy prostitution, and hast made thy beauty to be abominable, and hast prostituted thyself to every one that passed by, and hast multiplied thy fornications.

Lamentations 1:5

He. Her adversaries are become her lords, her enemies are enriched: because the Lord hath spoken against her for the multitude of her iniquities: her children are led into captivity, before the face of the oppressor.

Jeremiah 49:19

Behold, one shall come up as a lion from the swelling of the Jordan, against the strong and beautiful: for I will make him run suddenly upon her. And who shall be the chosen one whom I may appoint over her? For who is like to me and who shall abide me? And who is that shepherd that can withstand my countenance?

Jeremiah 30:24

The Lord will not turn away the wrath of his indignation till he have executed and performed the thought of his heart. In the latter days you shall understand these things.

Jeremiah 30:14

All thy lovers have forgotten thee and will not seek after thee: for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with a cruel chastisement: by reason of the multitude of thy iniquities, thy sins are hardened.

Jeremiah 25:38

He has forsaken his covert as the lion, for the land is laid waste: because of the wrath of the [dove] and because of the fierce anger of the Lord.

Jeremiah 14:7

If our iniquities have testified against us, O Lord, do thou it for thy name's sake, for our rebellions are many: we have sinned against thee.

Jeremiah 2:19

Thy own wickedness shall reprove thee, and thy apostasy shall rebuke thee. Know thou, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing for thee, to have left the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not with thee, saith the Lord, the God of hosts.

Jeremiah 2:17

Hath not this been done to thee, because thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, at that time when he led thee by the way?

Jeremiah 2:15

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.

Isaiah 59:12

For our iniquities are multiplied before thee and our sins have testified against us: for our wicked doings are with us and we have known our iniquities:

Psalm 104:20

The king sent, and he released him: the ruler of the people, and he set him at liberty.

Ezra 10:10

And Esdras the priest stood up, and said to them: You have transgressed, and taken strange wives, to add to the sins of Israel.

Ezra 9:6

And said: My God, I am confounded and ashamed to lift up my face to thee. For our iniquities are multiplied over our heads; and our sins are grown up even unto heaven,

Numbers 32:14

And, behold, said he, you are risen up instead of your fathers, the increase and offspring of sinful men, to augment the fury of the Lord against Israel.

Psalm 80:13

So I let them go according to the desires of their heart: they shall walk in their own inventions.

Jeremiah 8:5

Why then is this people in Jerusalem turned away with a stubborn revolting? They have laid hold on lying and have refused to return.

Jeremiah 30:15

Why criest thou for thy affliction? Thy sorrow is incurable: for the multitude of thy iniquity and for thy hardened sins, I have done these things to thee.

2 Chronicles 36:14

Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people wickedly transgressed according to all the abominations of the Gentiles: and they defiled the house of the Lord, which he had sanctified to himself in Jerusalem.

Job 10:16

And for pride thou wilt take me as a lioness, and returning thou tormentest me wonderfully.

Isaiah 1:23

Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves: they all love bribes, the run after rewards. They judge not for the fatherless: and the widow's cometh not in to them.

Jeremiah 2:31

See ye the word of the Lord: Am I become a wilderness to Israel, or a lateward springing land? Why then have my people said: We are revolted, we will come to thee no more?

Jeremiah 8:7

The kite in the air hath known her time: the turtle and the swallow and the stork have observed the time of their coming: but my people have not known the judgment of the Lord.