Ezekiel 32:2

New Century Version

“Human, sing a funeral song about the king of Egypt. Say to him: ‘You are like a young lion among the nations. You are like a crocodile in the seas. You splash around in your streams and stir up the water with your feet, making the rivers muddy.

Cross References

Genesis 49:9

Judah is like a young lion. You have returned from killing, my son. Like a lion, he stretches out and lies down to rest, and no one is brave enough to wake him.

Job 41:23

The folds of its skin are tightly joined; they are set and cannot be moved.

Job 7:12

I am not the sea or the sea monster. So why have you set a guard over me?

Proverbs 25:26

A good person who gives in to evil is like a muddy spring or a dirty well.

Proverbs 28:15

A wicked ruler is as dangerous to poor people as a roaring lion or a charging bear.

Proverbs 30:30

a lion, the proudest animal, which is strong and runs from nothing,

Isaiah 27:1

At that time the Lord will punish Leviathan, the gliding snake. He will punish Leviathan, the coiled snake, with his great and hard and powerful sword. He will kill the monster in the sea.

Isaiah 51:9

Wake up, wake up, and use your strength, powerful Lord. Wake up as you did in the old times, as you did a long time ago. With your own power, you cut Rahab into pieces and killed that sea monster.

Jeremiah 4:7

A lion has come out of his den; a destroyer of nations has begun to march. He has left his home to destroy your land. Your towns will be destroyed with no one left to live in them.

Jeremiah 46:7

Who is this, rising up like the Nile River, like strong, fast rivers?

Jeremiah 46:8

Egypt rises up like the Nile River, like strong, fast rivers. Egypt says, ‘I will rise up and cover the earth. I will destroy cities and the people in them!’

Jeremiah 9:18

Let them come quickly and cry loudly for us. Then our eyes will fill with tears, and streams of water will flow from our eyelids.

Ezekiel 26:17

They will begin singing a funeral song about you and will say to you: ‘Tyre, you famous city, you have been destroyed! You have lost your sea power! You and your people had great power on the seas. You made everyone around you afraid of you.

Ezekiel 27:2

“Human, sing a funeral song for the city of Tyre.

Ezekiel 27:32

And in their loud crying they sing a funeral song for you: “No one was ever destroyed like Tyre, surrounded by the sea.”

Ezekiel 28:12

“Human, sing a funeral song for the king of Tyre. Say to him: ‘This is what the Lord God says: You were an example of what was perfect, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

Ezekiel 29:15

It will be the weakest kingdom, and it will never again rule other nations. I will make it so weak it will never again rule over the nations.

Ezekiel 29:3

Say: ‘This is what the Lord God says: I am against you, king of Egypt. You are like a great crocodile that lies in the Nile River. You say, “The Nile is mine; I made it for myself.”

Ezekiel 32:16

“This is the funeral song people will sing for Egypt. The women of the nations will sing it; they will sing a funeral song for Egypt and all its people, says the Lord God.”

Ezekiel 32:18

“Human, cry for the people of Egypt. Bring down Egypt, together with the women of the powerful nations; bring them down to the place of the dead below the earth to join those who go to the place of the dead.

Ezekiel 34:18

Is it not enough for you to eat grass in the good land? Must you crush the rest of the grass with your feet? Is it not enough for you to drink clear water? Must you make the rest of the water muddy with your feet?

Ezekiel 38:13

Sheba, Dedan, and the traders of Tarshish, with all its villages, will say to you, “Did you come to capture treasure? Did you bring your troops together to take loot? Did you bring them to carry away silver and gold and to take away farm animals and property?” ’

Numbers 24:9

Like a lion, they lie waiting to attack; like a lioness, no one would be brave enough to wake them. Anyone who blesses you will be blessed, and anyone who curses you will be cursed.”

Matthew 7:24

“Everyone who hears my words and obeys them is like a wise man who built his house on rock.