Nahum 2:11

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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?

Cross References

Genesis 49:9

Judah is a lion’s whelp; from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He crouches down, he stretches out like a lion, like a lioness—who dares rouse him up?

Isaiah 13:7

Therefore all hands will be feeble, and every human heart will melt,

Isaiah 31:4

For thus the Lord said to me, “As a lion or a young lion growls over its prey and, when a band of shepherds is called out against it, is not terrified by their shouting or daunted at their noise, so the Lord of hosts will come down to fight upon Mount Zion and upon its hill.

Isaiah 5:29

Their roaring is like a lion; like young lions they roar; they growl and seize their prey; they carry it off, and no one can rescue.

Jeremiah 2:15

The lions have roared against him; they have roared loudly. They have made his land a waste; his cities are in ruins, without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 4:7

A lion has gone up from its thicket; a destroyer of nations has set out; he has gone out from his place to make your land a waste; your cities will be ruins without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 50:17

Israel is a hunted sheep driven away by lions. First the king of Assyria devoured it, and now at the end King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon has gnawed its bones.

Jeremiah 50:44

Like a lion coming up from the thickets of the Jordan to a perennial pasture, I will suddenly chase them away from her, and I will appoint over her whomever I choose. For who is like me? Who can summon me? Who is the shepherd who can stand before me?

Ezekiel 32:2

Mortal, raise a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: You consider yourself a lion among the nations, but you are like a dragon in the seas; you thrash about in your streams, trouble the water with your feet, and foul your streams.

Joel 2:6

Before them peoples are in anguish; all faces grow pale.

Micah 5:6

They shall rule the land of Assyria with the sword and the land of Nimrod with the drawn sword; they shall rescue us from the Assyrians if they come into our land or tread within our border.

Nahum 2:12

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.

Nahum 3:1

Woe, city of bloodshed, utterly deceitful, full of plunder— no end to the prey!

Zephaniah 3:3

The officials within it are roaring lions; its judges are evening wolves that leave nothing until the morning.

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.”