Numbers 23:24 - New International Version (Anglicised)

²⁴ The people rise like a lioness; they rouse themselves like a lion that does not rest till it devours its prey and drinks the blood of its victims.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁴ 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

²⁴ 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)

²⁴ 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

²⁴ 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

²⁴ 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

²⁴ 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.

Numbers 23:24 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 49:27

‘Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning he devours the prey, in the evening he divides the plunder.’

Genesis 49:9

You are a lion’s cub, Judah; you return from the prey, my son. Like a lion he crouches and lies down, like a lioness – who dares to rouse him?

1 Kings 10:20

Twelve lions stood on the six steps, one at either end of each step. Nothing like it had ever been made for any other kingdom.

2 Chronicles 9:18

The throne had six steps, and a footstool of gold was attached to it. On both sides of the seat were armrests, with a lion standing beside each of them.

Psalm 17:12

They are like a lion hungry for prey, like a fierce lion crouching in cover.

Proverbs 30:30

a lion, mighty among beasts, who retreats before nothing;

Isaiah 31:4

This is what the Lord says to me: ‘As a lion growls, a great lion over its prey – and though a whole band of shepherds is called together against it, it is not frightened by their shouts or disturbed by their clamour – so the Lord Almighty will come down to do battle on Mount Zion and on its heights.

Daniel 2:44

‘In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure for ever.

Amos 3:8

The lion has roared – who will not fear? The Sovereign Lord has spoken – who can but prophesy?

Nahum 2:11

Where now is the lions’ den, the place where they fed their young, where the lion and lioness went, and the cubs, with nothing to fear?

Nahum 2:12

The lion killed enough for his cubs and strangled the prey for his mate, filling his lairs with the kill and his dens with the prey.

Zechariah 12:6

‘On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a brazier in a woodpile, like a flaming torch among sheaves. They will consume all the surrounding peoples right and left, but Jerusalem will remain intact in her place.

Numbers 23:25

Then Balak said to Balaam, ‘Neither curse them at all nor bless them at all!’

Numbers 24:17

‘I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob; a sceptre will rise out of Israel. He will crush the foreheads of Moab, the skulls of all the people of Sheth.

Deuteronomy 33:20

About Gad he said: ‘Blessed is he who enlarges Gad’s domain! Gad lives there like a lion, tearing at arm or head.

Revelation 5:5

Then one of the elders said to me, ‘Do not weep! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals.’