Verse 2

Thou sonne of man, take vp a lamentation vpon Pharao the king of Egypt, and say vnto him, thou art lyke a lion of the heathen, and as a whale fishe in the sea: thou drawest out thy riuers, thou troublest the waters with thy feete, and stampest in their riuers.

Referenced Verses

  • Ezek 29:3 : 3 Speake & tell him, thus sayth the Lord God: Beholde O Pharao thou king of Egypt, I will vpon thee thou great dragon that lyeth in the mids of his riuers, thou that sayst, The riuer is mine, I haue made it for my selfe.
  • Ezek 27:2 : 2 O thou sonne of man, take vp a lamentable complaint vpon Tyre,
  • Nah 2:11-13 : 11 Where is the abiding place of lions, and the feding plot of lions whelpes become, whyther the young and olde lion had their resort? there dwelt the lion, & there was no man to put him in feare. 12 The lion made his praye aboundauntly for his whelpes, and strangled for his she lions, and hath filled his dennes with pray, and his abyding places with spoyle. 13 Behold me against thee sayth the Lord of hoastes, & I will burne in smoke her charets, and the sworde shall deuoure thy lions, I will roote out also from the earth thy spoyling, and the voyce of thy messengers shalbe hearde no more.
  • Ezek 19:1-6 : 1 Thou also take vp a lamentation for the princes of Israel, 2 And say: wherfore lay thy mother that lionesse among the lions? she norished her young ones among the lions whelpes. 3 One of her whelpes she brought vp, and it be came a lion, it learned to catche the pray and to deuour folke. 4 The heathen hearde of hym, and caught hym in their snare, and brought hym in hookes vnto the lande of Egypt. 5 Nowe when she sawe that she had wayted and her hope was lost, she toke another of her whelpes and made a lion of hym. 6 Which went among the lions, and became a fearce lion, learned to catche the pray, and to deuour folke,
  • Ezek 28:12 : 12 Thou sonne of man, take vp a lamentation vpon the king of Tyre, & tel him, thus sayth the Lord God: Thou sealest vp the summe, full of wysdome, & perfite beautie.
  • Ezek 32:16 : 16 This is the mourning when they shal lament her, the daughters of the nations shall lament her, they shall make the lamentation ouer Egypt, and ouer all the people thereof, saith the Lorde God.
  • Ezek 34:18 : 18 Seemeth it a smal thing to you to haue eaten vp the good pasture, and to treade downe the residue of your pasture with your feete also? to drinke the deepe waters, and to trouble the rest also with your feete?
  • Ezek 38:13 : 13 Then shall Saba and Dedan, and the marchauntes of Tharsis with all their lions, say vnto thee: Art thou come to spoyle a pray? hast thou gathered thy people together to take a bootie, to take away siluer and golde, to cary away cattel and good, and to haue a great pray?
  • Isa 27:1 : 1 In that day the Lord with his sore, great, and mightie sworde, shall visite Leuiathan the fugitiue serpent, euen Leuiathan that crooked serpent, and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
  • Jer 4:7 : 7 For the spoyler of the gentiles is broken vp from his place as a lion out of his denne: that he may make thy lande waste, and destroy the cities, so that no man may dwell therin.
  • Jer 9:18 : 18 And sing a mourning song of vs, that the teares may fall out of our eyes, and that our eye liddes may gushe out of water.
  • Jer 46:8 : 8 It is Egypt that ryseth vp lyke the fludde, and casteth out the waters with so great noyse: And he saide, I wyll go vp and wyll couer the earth, I wyll destroy the citie with them that are therin.
  • Isa 51:9 : 9 Wake vp, wake vp, and be strong O thou arme of the Lorde, wake vp, lyke as in tyme past, euer, and since the world began.
  • Gen 49:9 : 9 Iuda is a lions whelpe: fro thy spoyle my sonne thou art come on hye. He layed him downe, and couched himselfe as a lion, and as a lionesse: who wyll stirre hym vp?
  • Num 24:9 : 9 He couched hym selfe, and lay downe as a Lion, and as an elder Lion: who shall stirre hym vp? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.
  • Ps 74:13-14 : 13 Thou didst deuide the sea through thy power: thou brakest the heades of the dragons in the waters. 14 Thou smotest the heades of Leuiathan in peeces: and gauest hym to be meate for the people in wildernesse.
  • Prov 28:15 : 15 As a roaring Lion and an hungrye Beare, so is an vngodly prince ouer the poore people.
  • Ezek 32:18 : 18 Thou sonne of man, lament for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them downe, euen them and the daughters of the famous nations vnto the neather partes of the earth, with them that go downe into the pit.
  • Ezek 27:32 : 32 And they shall take vp a lamentation for thee in their mourning, and lament ouer thee, what citie is like Tyrus so destroyed in the mids of the sea?