Jeremiah 25:38

American Standard Version (1901)

He hath left his covert, as the lion; for their land is become an astonishment because of the fierceness of the oppressing [sword], and because of his fierce anger.

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  • Jer 4:7 : 7 A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make thy land desolate, that thy cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.
  • Jer 5:6 : 6 Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, [and] their backslidings are increased.
  • Hos 5:14 : 14 For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will carry off, and there shall be none to deliver.
  • Hos 13:7-8 : 7 Therefore am I unto them as a lion; as a leopard will I watch by the way; 8 I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart; and there will I devour them like a lioness; the wild beast shall tear them.
  • Amos 8:8 : 8 Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? yea, it shall rise up wholly like the River; and it shall be troubled and sink again, like the River of Egypt.
  • Zech 2:3 : 3 And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him,
  • Hos 11:10 : 10 They shall walk after Jehovah, who will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children shall come trembling from the west.
  • Jer 49:19 : 19 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoso is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd that will stand before me?
  • Jer 50:44 : 44 Behold, [the enemy] shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoso is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd that can stand before me?
  • Ps 76:2 : 2 In Salem also is his tabernacle, And his dwelling-place in Zion.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 25:36-37
    2 verses
    83%

    36A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and the wailing of the principal of the flock! for Jehovah layeth waste their pasture.

    37And the peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.

  • Jer 4:7-8
    2 verses
    83%

    7A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make thy land desolate, that thy cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.

    8For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Jehovah is not turned back from us.

  • Ezek 19:7
    81%

    7And he knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, because of the noise of his roaring.

  • Jer 2:15
    81%

    15The young lions have roared upon him, and yelled; and they have made his land waste: his cities are burned up, without inhabitant.

  • Nah 2:11-13
    3 verses
    79%

    11Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding-place of the young lions, where the lion [and] the lioness walked, the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid?

    12The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with prey, and his dens with ravin.

    13Behold, I am against thee, saith Jehovah of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions; and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.

  • Ps 17:12
    77%

    12He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, And as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

  • Jer 5:6
    77%

    6Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, [and] their backslidings are increased.

  • Isa 5:29
    76%

    29their roaring shall be like a lioness, they shall roar like young lions; yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and carry it away safe, and there shall be none to deliver.

  • Isa 27:10
    76%

    10For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.

  • Job 28:8
    76%

    8The proud beasts have not trodden it, Nor hath the fierce lion passed thereby.

  • Job 4:10-11
    2 verses
    76%

    10The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, And the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

    11The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, And the whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad.

  • Hos 13:7-8
    2 verses
    75%

    7Therefore am I unto them as a lion; as a leopard will I watch by the way;

    8I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart; and there will I devour them like a lioness; the wild beast shall tear them.

  • Lam 3:10-11
    2 verses
    75%

    10He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.

    11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.

  • Joel 1:6-7
    2 verses
    75%

    6For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the jaw-teeth of a lioness.

    7He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig-tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.

  • Lam 2:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: He hath thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He hath brought them down to the ground; he hath profaned the kingdom and the princes thereof.

    3He hath cut off in fierce anger all the horn of Israel; He hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy: And he hath burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.

  • Zech 11:3
    74%

    3A voice of the wailing of the shepherds! for their glory is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions! for the pride of the Jordan is laid waste.

  • Ps 79:7
    74%

    7For they have devoured Jacob, And laid waste his habitation.

  • Prov 28:15
    73%

    15[ As] a roaring lion, and a ranging bear, [So is] a wicked ruler over a poor people.

  • Jer 12:11
    73%

    11They have made it a desolation; it mourneth unto me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.

  • Ps 10:9
    73%

    9He lurketh in secret as a lion in his covert; He lieth in wait to catch the poor: He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him in his net.

  • Jer 50:17
    73%

    17Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away: first, the king of Assyria devoured him; and now at last Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.

  • Lam 2:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5The Lord is become as an enemy, he hath swallowed up Israel; He hath swallowed up all her palaces, he hath destroyed his strongholds; And he hath multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

    6And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden; he hath destroyed his place of assembly: Jehovah hath caused solemn assembly and sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, And hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.

  • Isa 31:4
    73%

    4For thus saith Jehovah unto me, As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds be called forth against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so will Jehovah of hosts come down to fight upon mount Zion, and upon the hill thereof.

  • Hos 5:14
    73%

    14For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will carry off, and there shall be none to deliver.

  • Isa 17:9
    73%

    9In that day shall their strong cities be as the forsaken places in the wood and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it shall be a desolation.

  • Jer 9:10
    73%

    10For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passeth through; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the birds of the heavens and the beasts are fled, they are gone.

  • Lam 5:18
    73%

    18For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk upon it.

  • Isa 5:25
    73%

    25Therefore is the anger of Jehovah kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them; and the mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

  • Isa 6:12
    73%

    12and Jehovah have removed men far away, and the forsaken places be many in the midst of the land.

  • Mic 5:8
    73%

    8And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep; who, if he go through, treadeth down and teareth in pieces, and there is none to deliver.

  • Job 15:28
    73%

    28And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, In houses which no man inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps;

  • Isa 42:25
    72%

    25Therefore he poured upon him the fierceness of his anger, and the strength of battle; and it set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.

  • Num 23:24
    72%

    24Behold, 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.

  • Jer 50:3
    72%

    3For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they are fled, they are gone, both man and beast.

  • Lam 4:11
    72%

    11Jehovah hath accomplished his wrath, he hath poured out his fierce anger; And he hath kindled a fire in Zion, which hath devoured the foundations thereof.

  • Mic 7:13
    72%

    13Yet shall the land be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.

  • Job 18:4
    72%

    4Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, Shall the earth be forsaken for thee? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?

  • Isa 13:14
    72%

    14And it shall come to pass, that as the chased roe, and as sheep that no man gathereth, they shall turn every man to his own people, and shall flee every man to his own land.

  • Ps 22:13
    72%

    13They gape upon me with their mouth, [As] a ravening and a roaring lion.

  • Ps 80:13
    72%

    13The boar out of the wood doth ravage it, And the wild beasts of the field feed on it.