Proverbs 19:12

Modern English Version

The wrath of a king is like the roaring of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

Cross References

Genesis 27:28

Therefore, may God give you of the dew of heaven and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.

2 Samuel 23:4

is like the light of the morning when the sun rises, a morning with no clouds, gleaming after the rain like grass from the land.

Esther 1:12

But Queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s command delivered by his eunuchs. Therefore, the king grew very angry, and his wrath burned within him.

Esther 7:8

Now the king returned from the palace garden back to the hall of the banquet as Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, “Will he also violate the queen while I am in the room?” As the shout erupted from the king’s mouth, they covered the face of Haman.

Psalm 133:3

It is like the dew of Hermon, descending upon the mountains of Zion; for there the Lord commanded the blessing, life forevermore.

Psalm 72:6

May he descend like rain upon the mown grass, like showers that water the earth.

Proverbs 20:2

The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion; he who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.

Proverbs 28:15

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

Ecclesiastes 8:4

For the word of the king is powerful, and who can say to him, “What are you doing?”

Isaiah 18:4

For so the Lord said to me: I will look from My dwelling place quietly, like dazzling heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

Daniel 5:19

And for the majesty that He gave him, all peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. Whom he would, he slaughtered, and whom he would, he kept alive; whom he would, he set up, and whom he would, he put down.

Daniel 6:24

Then the king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions—them, their children, and their wives. And the lions overpowered them and broke all their bones in pieces before they came to the bottom of the den.

Hosea 14:5

I will be like the dew to Israel; he shall grow like the lily and shall strike his roots like Lebanon.

Micah 5:7

Then the remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples, like dew from the Lord, like showers upon the grass, which do not wait for a man and do not linger for the sons of men.

Deuteronomy 33:28

Israel dwells in safety; the fountain of Jacob will be secluded in a land of grain and new wine; its heavens will rain down dew.