Ezekiel 32:2

Modern English Version

Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: You likened yourself to a young lion of the nations, but you are as the monster in the seas; and you burst forth in your rivers, and muddied the waters with your feet, and made foul their rivers.

Cross References

Genesis 49:9

Judah is a lion’s cub; from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He crouches and lies down like a lion; and as a lion, who dares rouse him?

Job 41:23

The folds of his flesh are joined together; they are firm on him; they cannot be moved.

Job 7:12

Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that You set a guard over me?

Proverbs 25:26

Like a muddy spring or a polluted fountain is a righteous man who falters before the wicked.

Proverbs 28:15

Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a poor people.

Proverbs 30:30

the lion, which is mightiest among beasts, and does not turn away from anything;

Isaiah 27:1

In that day the Lord with His fierce and great and strong sword shall punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, even Leviathan the twisted serpent; and He shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

Isaiah 51:9

Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord. Awake as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces and wounded the dragon?

Jeremiah 4:7

The lion has come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the nations is on his way. He has gone forth from his place to make your land desolate. And your cities shall be laid waste without an inhabitant.

Jeremiah 46:7

Who is this that comes up as the Nile, whose waters surge about as the rivers?

Jeremiah 46:8

Egypt rises up like the Nile, and his waters surge about like the rivers. And he has said, I will go up and will cover the land. I will surely destroy the city and its inhabitants.

Jeremiah 9:18

And let them make haste and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids gush out with waters.

Ezekiel 26:17

They shall take up a lamentation over you and say to you: How you are destroyed, O inhabited one of the seas, the renowned city, which was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who caused her terror to be on all her inhabitants!

Ezekiel 27:2

Now you, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre.

Ezekiel 27:32

Also, in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for you and lament over you, saying, “Who is like Tyre, like her who is silent in the midst of the sea?

Ezekiel 28:12

Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre and say to him, Thus says the Lord God: You had the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

Ezekiel 29:15

It shall be the basest of the kingdoms, and it shall exalt itself no more above the nations, for I will diminish them so that they shall rule over the nations no more.

Ezekiel 29:3

Speak, and say, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lies in the midst of his rivers, which has said, “My Nile is my own, and I myself have made it.”

Ezekiel 32:16

This is the lamentation, and they shall chant it. The daughters of the nations shall chant it. They shall chant it over Egypt and over all her multitude, says the Lord God.

Ezekiel 32:18

Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt and cast it down, her and the daughters of the powerful nations, to the nether parts of the earth, with those who go down into the pit.

Ezekiel 34:18

Does it seem a small thing to you to have eaten up the good pasture, that you must tread down with your feet the rest of your pastures? Or that you should drink of the clear waters, that you must foul the rest with your feet?

Ezekiel 38:13

Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish with all its villages shall say to you, “Have you come to take spoil? Have you gathered your company to seize prey, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great spoil?”

Numbers 24:9

He crouches, he lies down as a lion, and as a lion, who will stir him up? “Blessed is he who blesses you, and cursed is he who curses you.”

Matthew 7:24

“Whoever hears these sayings of Mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on a rock.