Benjamin is a ravenous wolf, in the morning devouring the prey and at evening dividing the spoil.”
Numbers 23:24 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 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.” Plus de versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, And lift up himself as a young lion: He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, And drink the blood of the slain. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Behold, a people! They rise up as a lioness and lift themselves up as a lion; he shall not lie down until he devours the prey and drinks the blood of the slain. American Standard Version (1901) Behold, the people riseth up as a lioness, And as a lion doth he lift himself up: He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, And drink the blood of the slain. Common English Bible A people now rises like a lioness, like a lion it stands up. It doesn’t lie down until it eats the prey and drinks the blood of the slain.” Catholic Public Domain Version Behold, the people will rise up like a lioness, and lie down like a lion. But they will not lie down until they devour the prey and drink the blood of the slain." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Behold, the people shall rise up as a lioness: and shall lift itself up as a lion. It shall not lie down till it devour the prey, and drink the blood of the slain. |
Benjamin is a ravenous wolf, in the morning devouring the prey and at evening dividing the spoil.”
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?
while twelve lions were standing, one on each end of a step on the six steps. Nothing like it was ever made in any kingdom.
The throne had six steps and a footstool of gold, which were attached to the throne, and on each side of the seat were arm rests and two lions standing beside the arm rests,
They are like a lion eager to tear, like a young lion lurking in ambush.
the lion, which is mightiest among wild animals and does not turn back before any;
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.
And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall this kingdom be left to another people. It shall crush all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever,
The lion has roared; who will not fear? The Lord God has spoken; who can but prophesy?
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?
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.
On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a blazing pot on a pile of wood, like a flaming torch among sheaves, and they shall devour to the right and to the left all the surrounding peoples, while Jerusalem shall again be inhabited in its place, in Jerusalem.
Then Balak said to Balaam, “Do not curse them at all, and do not bless them at all.”
I see him but not now; I behold him but not near— a star shall come out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel; it shall crush the foreheads of Moab and the heads of all the Shethites.
And of Gad he said, “Blessed be the enlargement of Gad! Like a lion he lives; he tears at arm and scalp.
Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep. See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.”