Jeremiah 5:6

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As a result a lion from the forest will attack them; a wolf from the desert will rip them apart. A leopard will lie in wait for them near their towns, ready to tear to pieces anyone who goes outside. For they keep on rebelling, and turn away from me so often.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:14

All the leaders of the priests and the people were also totally faithless and sinful, following all the disgusting practices of the heathen nations. They defiled the Lord's Temple that he had set apart as holy in Jerusalem.

Ezra 10:10

Ezra the priest stood up and told them, “You have committed sin by marrying foreign women, making Israel's guilt even worse.

Ezra 9:6

I prayed, “My God, I am so ashamed and embarrassed to come and pray to you, my God, because we are in over our heads in sin, and our guilt has risen to the heavens.

Job 10:16

If I do hold my head high you hunt me down like a lion, showing how powerful you are in hurting me.

Psalm 104:20

You make darkness fall and the night comes, the time when the forest animals come out to hunt.

Psalm 80:13

Wild pigs from the forest eat it, wild animals feed on it.

Isaiah 1:23

Your leaders are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and want to get kickbacks. They don't defend the rights of orphans, and refuse to take cases to help widows.

Isaiah 59:12

You are aware of all our rebellious acts; our sins witness against us. Yes, we acknowledge our rebellious acts; we know all about our sins.

Jeremiah 14:7

Even though our sins give evidence against us, Lord, please do something for us because of your good nature. Yes, we have rebelled against you so often; we have sinned against you.

Jeremiah 2:15

The young lions roared at you; they growled loudly. They have devastated your country; your towns lie in ruins. No one lives there.

Jeremiah 2:17

Didn't you bring this on yourself by abandoning the Lord your God when he was leading you in the right way?

Jeremiah 2:19

Your own wickedness will discipline you; your own disobedience will teach you a lesson. Think about it and you'll recognize what a bitter evil it is for you to abandon the Lord your God and not to respect me, declares the Lord God Almighty.

Jeremiah 2:31

You people of today, think about what the Lord is saying: Israel, have I treated you like an empty desert, or a land of thick darkness? Why are my people saying, “We can go where we like! We don't have to come and worship you any more”?

Jeremiah 25:38

The Lord has left his den like a lion, because their country has been devastated by the invading armies, and because of the Lord's fierce anger.

Jeremiah 30:14

All your lovers have forgotten about you; they don't bother looking for you anymore, because I have beaten you as if I were your enemy, the discipline of a cruel person, because of how wicked you are, because of your many sins.

Jeremiah 30:15

Why are you crying over your wound? Your pain can't be cured. I did this to you because of how wicked you are, because of your many sins.

Jeremiah 30:24

The Lord's anger won't fade until he's finished doing everything he wants. Only then will you really understand.

Jeremiah 4:7

A lion has left his hiding place; a destroyer of nations has started out. He has left his den to come and turn your country into a wasteland. Your towns will be demolished, and no one will live there.

Jeremiah 49:19

Watch out! I'm going to come like a lion from the tangled undergrowth beside the Jordan to attack the animals grazing the green pasture. In fact I'm going to chase the Edomites from their land very quickly. Who will I choose to conquer them? Who is like me? Who can challenge me? Which leader could oppose me?

Jeremiah 8:5

So why have these people of Jerusalem gone the wrong way? Why do they refuse to turn around from their repeated betrayals, holding on to all their lies?

Jeremiah 8:7

Even storks high in the sky know when it's time to migrate. Turtledoves, swifts, and songbirds know when to fly away at the right time of the year. But my people don't know the laws of the Lord.

Lamentations 1:5

Those who hated her now control her; her enemies enjoy life, because the Lord has made her suffer due to all her sins of rebellion. Her children have been taken away as prisoners of the enemy.

Ezekiel 16:25

You made yourselves high places of idol worship at the top of every street; you degraded yourself, offering your beautiful body to anyone who passed by, opening your legs for them, becoming more and more promiscuous.

Ezekiel 22:27

Her city officials are like wolves ripping up their prey, killing people, destroying lives so they can profit through fraud.

Ezekiel 23:19

But she practiced even more prostitution, remembering how she'd been a prostitute in Egypt when she was young.

Daniel 7:4

The first was like a lion and had the wings of an eagle. As I watched, its wings were torn off and it was pulled upright so it was standing with its hind legs on the ground and it was given the mind of a human being.

Daniel 7:6

After this I saw a third beast. It looked like a leopard with four wings like those of a bird on its back, and it had four heads. It was given power to impose its rule.

Hosea 5:14

For I will be like a lion to Ephraim, like a fierce lion to the people of Judah. I will come and tear them to pieces, and carry them off, and no one will be able to rescue them.

Habakkuk 1:8

Their horses are faster than leopards and fiercer than hungry wolves. Their cavalry charges, racing in from far away. Like eagles, they swoop down to eat their prey.

Zephaniah 3:3

Your leaders are as greedy as roaring lions; your judges are ravenous wolves that leave nothing behind by morning.

Numbers 32:14

Now look at you, you brood of sinners who have come to take your fathers' place to make the Lord even angrier with Israel!

Revelation 13:2

The beast I saw looked like a leopard, but his feet looked like those of a bear, and his mouth looked like that of a lion. The dragon gave the beast his power, his throne, and great authority.