Jeremiah 4:7Wycliffe's Bible with Modern SpellingA lion shall go up from his den, and the robber of folks shall raise himself. He is gone out of his place, to set thy land into wilderness; thy cities shall be destroyed, abiding still without dweller. See the chapter |
lo! I shall send, and take all the kindreds of the north, saith the Lord, and Nebuchadnezzar, my servant, the king of Babylon; and I shall bring them on this land, and on the dwellers thereof, and on all nations, that be in the compass thereof; and I shall slay them, and I shall set them into wondering, and into hissing, and into everlasting wildernesses.
Lo! as a lion he shall ascend [or go up] from the pride of Jordan to the strong fairness; for I shall make him run suddenly to it; and who shall be the chosen man whom I shall set [or put] before him? For who is like to me, and who shall suffer me? and who is this shepherd, that shall against-stand my cheer?
Lo! as a lion he shall ascend [or goeth up] from the pride of Jordan to the strong fairness, for I shall make him to run suddenly to it; and who shall be the chosen man whom I shall set [or put] before him? For who is like me? and who shall suffer me? and who is this shepherd, that shall against-stand my cheer?
Thou, son of man, take wailing on Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and thou shalt say to him, Thou were made like to a lion of heathen men, and to a dragon which is in the sea. And thou winnowest with horn in thy floods, and thou disturbedest [or troublest] waters with thy feet, and defouledest the floods of those [or them].