Nahum 2:11

Tree of Life Version

Emptiness, desolation, waste! Heart melting, knees buckling, anguish in all the loins, all their faces grown pale!

Cross References

Genesis 49:9

A lion’s cub is Judah— from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He crouches, lies down like a lion, or like a lioness— who would rouse him?

Isaiah 13:7

Therefore all hands will fall limp, and every man’s heart will melt.

Isaiah 31:4

For thus says Adonai to me: “As a lion or a young lion growls over its prey, though a company of shepherds is called out against him —their voice does not disturb him, nor does their noise upset him— so Adonai-Tzva’ot will come down to fight on Mount Zion, on its hill.

Isaiah 5:29

Their roaring will be like a lion. They will growl like young lions— yes, they will roar, seize their prey and carry it away safely— and there will be none to rescue.

Jeremiah 2:15

Young lions have roared at him they have roared loudly. They made his land a waste— his cities are in ruins and uninhabited.

Jeremiah 4:7

A lion has come up from his thicket— a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his place to make your land a wasteland. Your cities will lie in ruins, without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 50:17

Israel is a scattered flock— lions have driven them away. First, Assyria’s king devoured him. This last one who broke his bones was King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.

Jeremiah 50:44

Look, it is like a lion coming up from the thickets of the Jordan to a secure pasture—for abruptly I will make him run away from it. I appoint over it whomever I choose. For who is like Me? Who will summon Me to court? What shepherd stands up to Me?”

Ezekiel 32:2

“Son of man, lift up a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: ‘You compare yourself to a young lion of the nations, but you are a crocodile in the waters. You thrash about in your rivers and muddy the water with your feet and foul their streams.’”

Joel 2:6

Before them peoples are in anguish. All faces become ashen gray.

Micah 5:6

Now the remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples, like dew from Adonai, like abundant showers on grass that does not wait for a man, nor lingers for the sons of men.

Nahum 2:12

Where is the lions’ den, the feeding place for young lions— where the lion went for a lion’s cub— with nothing to disturb them?

Nahum 3:1

Oy , bloody city! Full of deceit, full of plunder. The prey never departs.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her princes within her are roaring lions. Her judges are wolves of the night, leaving nothing but bones for morning.

Numbers 23:24

The people rise like a lioness, like a lion who does not rest until he eats his prey and drinks his victim’s blood!”