Jeremiah 5:6

New Living Translation

So now a lion from the forest will attack them; a wolf from the desert will pounce on them. A leopard will lurk near their towns, tearing apart any who dare to venture out. For their rebellion is great, and their sins are many.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:14

Likewise, all the leaders of the priests and the people became more and more unfaithful. They followed all the pagan practices of the surrounding nations, desecrating the Temple of the Lord that had been consecrated in Jerusalem.

Ezra 10:10

Then Ezra the priest stood and said to them: “You have committed a terrible sin. By marrying pagan women, you have increased Israel’s guilt.

Ezra 9:6

I prayed, “O my God, I am utterly ashamed; I blush to lift up my face to you. For our sins are piled higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached to the heavens.

Job 10:16

And if I hold my head high, you hunt me like a lion and display your awesome power against me.

Psalm 104:20

You send the darkness, and it becomes night, when all the forest animals prowl about.

Psalm 80:13

The wild boar from the forest devours it, and the wild animals feed on it.

Isaiah 1:23

Your leaders are rebels, the companions of thieves. All of them love bribes and demand payoffs, but they refuse to defend the cause of orphans or fight for the rights of widows.

Isaiah 59:12

For our sins are piled up before God and testify against us. Yes, we know what sinners we are.

Jeremiah 14:7

The people say, “Our wickedness has caught up with us, Lord, but help us for the sake of your own reputation. We have turned away from you and sinned against you again and again.

Jeremiah 2:15

Strong lions have roared against him, and the land has been destroyed. The towns are now in ruins, and no one lives in them anymore.

Jeremiah 2:17

And you have brought this upon yourselves by rebelling against the Lord your God, even though he was leading you on the way!

Jeremiah 2:19

Your wickedness will bring its own punishment. Your turning from me will shame you. You will see what an evil, bitter thing it is to abandon the Lord your God and not to fear him. I, the Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, have spoken!

Jeremiah 2:31

“O my people, listen to the words of the Lord! Have I been like a desert to Israel? Have I been to them a land of darkness? Why then do my people say, ‘At last we are free from God! We don’t need him anymore!’

Jeremiah 25:38

He has left his den like a strong lion seeking its prey, and their land will be made desolate by the sword of the enemy and the Lord’s fierce anger.

Jeremiah 30:14

All your lovers—your allies—have left you and do not care about you anymore. I have wounded you cruelly, as though I were your enemy. For your sins are many, and your guilt is great.

Jeremiah 30:15

Why do you protest your punishment— this wound that has no cure? I have had to punish you because your sins are many and your guilt is great.

Jeremiah 30:24

The fierce anger of the Lord will not diminish until it has finished all he has planned. In the days to come you will understand all this.

Jeremiah 4:7

A lion stalks from its den, a destroyer of nations. It has left its lair and is headed your way. It’s going to devastate your land! Your towns will lie in ruins, with no one living in them anymore.

Jeremiah 49:19

I will come like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan, leaping on the sheep in the pasture. I will chase Edom from its land, and I will appoint the leader of my choice. For who is like me, and who can challenge me? What ruler can oppose my will?”

Jeremiah 8:5

Then why do these people stay on their self-destructive path? Why do the people of Jerusalem refuse to turn back? They cling tightly to their lies and will not turn around.

Jeremiah 8:7

Even the stork that flies across the sky knows the time of her migration, as do the turtledove, the swallow, and the crane. They all return at the proper time each year. But not my people! They do not know the Lord’s laws.

Lamentations 1:5

Her oppressors have become her masters, and her enemies prosper, for the Lord has punished Jerusalem for her many sins. Her children have been captured and taken away to distant lands.

Ezekiel 16:25

On every street corner you defiled your beauty, offering your body to every passerby in an endless stream of prostitution.

Ezekiel 22:27

Your leaders are like wolves who tear apart their victims. They actually destroy people’s lives for money!

Ezekiel 23:19

Yet she turned to even greater prostitution, remembering her youth when she was a prostitute in Egypt.

Daniel 7:4

The first beast was like a lion with eagles’ wings. As I watched, its wings were pulled off, and it was left standing with its two hind feet on the ground, like a human being. And it was given a human mind.

Daniel 7:6

Then the third of these strange beasts appeared, and it looked like a leopard. It had four bird’s wings on its back, and it had four heads. Great authority was given to this beast.

Hosea 5:14

I will be like a lion to Israel, like a strong young lion to Judah. I will tear them to pieces! I will carry them off, and no one will be left to rescue them.

Habakkuk 1:8

Their horses are swifter than cheetahs and fiercer than wolves at dusk. Their charioteers charge from far away. Like eagles, they swoop down to devour their prey.

Zephaniah 3:3

Its leaders are like roaring lions hunting for their victims. Its judges are like ravenous wolves at evening time, who by dawn have left no trace of their prey.

Numbers 32:14

But here you are, a brood of sinners, doing exactly the same thing! You are making the Lord even angrier with Israel.

Revelation 13:2

This beast looked like a leopard, but it had the feet of a bear and the mouth of a lion! And the dragon gave the beast his own power and throne and great authority.