Isaiah 5:29

New American Bible - revised edition

They roar like the lion, like young lions, they roar; They growl and seize the prey, they carry it off and none can rescue.

Cross References

Genesis 49:9

Judah is a lion’s cub, you have grown up on prey, my son. He crouches, lies down like a lion, like a lioness—who would dare rouse him?

Psalm 50:22

“Now understand this, you who forget God, lest I start ripping apart and there be no rescuer.

Isaiah 10:6

Against an impious nation I send him, and against a people under my wrath I order him To seize plunder, carry off loot, and to trample them like the mud of the street.

Isaiah 31:4

For thus says the Lord to me: As a lion or its young growling over the prey, With a band of shepherds assembled against it, Is neither dismayed by their shouts nor cowed by their noise, So shall the Lord of hosts come down to wage war upon Mount Zion, upon its height.

Isaiah 35:9

No lion shall be there, nor any beast of prey approach, nor be found. But there the redeemed shall walk,

Isaiah 42:22

This is a people plundered and despoiled, all of them trapped in holes, hidden away in prisons. They are taken as plunder, with no one to rescue them, as spoil, with no one to say, “Give back!”

Isaiah 47:15

Thus do your wizards serve you with whom you have toiled from your youth; They wander their separate ways, with none to save you.

Jeremiah 2:15

Against him lions roar, they raise their voices. They have turned his land into a waste; his cities are charred ruins, without an inhabitant.

Jeremiah 4:7

Up comes the lion from its lair, the destroyer of nations has set out, has left its place, To turn your land into a desolation, your cities into an uninhabited waste.

Jeremiah 49:19

As when a lion comes up from a thicket of the Jordan to a permanent pasture, So in an instant, I will chase them off; I will establish there whomever I choose. For who is like me? Who holds me accountable? What shepherd can stand against me?

Jeremiah 50:17

Israel was a stray sheep that lions pursued; The king of Assyria once devoured him; now Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon gnaws his bones.

Jeremiah 51:38

They roar like lions, growl like lion cubs.

Hosea 11:10

They shall follow the Lord, who roars like a lion; When he roars, his children shall come frightened from the west,

Amos 3:8

The lion has roared, who would not fear? The Lord God has spoken, who would not prophesy?

Micah 5:8

Your hand shall be lifted above your foes, and all your enemies shall be cut down.

Nahum 2:11

Emptiness, desolation, waste; melting hearts and trembling knees, Churning in every stomach, every face turning pale!

Zephaniah 3:3

Its officials within it are roaring lions; Its judges are desert wolves that have no bones to gnaw by morning.

Zechariah 11:3

Listen! the wailing of shepherds, their glory has been destroyed. Listen! the roaring of young lions, the thickets of the Jordan are destroyed. The Shepherd Narrative.

Numbers 24:9

Crouching, they lie like a lion, or like a lioness; who will arouse them? Blessed are those who bless you, and cursed are those who curse you!