Nahum 2:12

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

The lion has torn enough for his whelps and strangled prey for his lionesses; he has filled his caves with prey and his dens with torn flesh.

Cross References

2 Samuel 17:8

Hushai continued, “You know that your father and his men are warriors, and that they are enraged, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Besides, your father is expert in war; he will not spend the night with the troops.

Psalm 17:12

They are like a lion eager to tear, like a young lion lurking in ambush.

Jeremiah 51:34

“King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me; he has made me an empty vessel, he has swallowed me like a monster; he has filled his belly with my delicacies, he has spewed me out.

Nahum 2:11

What became of the lions' den, the cave of the young lions, where the lion goes, and the lion's cubs, with no one to disturb them?

Nahum 2:13

See, I am against you, says the Lord of hosts, and I will burn your chariots in smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions; I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers shall be heard no more.

Numbers 23:24

Look, a people rising up like a lioness, and rousing itself like a lion! It does not lie down until it has eaten the prey and drunk the blood of the slain.”