Nahum 2:12

Bishops' Bible (1568)

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.

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  • Jer 51:34 : 34 Nabuchodonozor the kyng of Babylon hath deuoured and destroyed me, he hath made me an emptie vessell, he swalowed me vp lyke a dragon, and fylled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.
  • Ps 17:12 : 12 Aryse O God, preuent his commyng, make hym to bowe: delyuer thou my soule from the vngodly which is thy sworde.
  • Isa 10:6-9 : 6 I wyll sende hym among those hypocritishe people: among the people that haue deserued my disfauour wyll I sende hym, that he vtterly rob them, spoyle them, and treade them downe lyke the myre in the streete. 7 Howbeit, his meaning is not so, neither thinketh his heart on this fashion: But he imagineth howe he may roote out and destroy muche people. 8 For he saith, Are not my princes all kynges? 9 Is not Chalno as easie to winne, as Charchamis? Is it harder to conquer Hamath, then Arphad? or is it lighter to ouercome Damascus, then Samaria? 10 As who say I were able to winne the kyngdomes of the idolaters and their gods, but not Hierusalem and Samaria. 11 Shall I not do vnto Hierusalem and her images, as I dyd vnto Samaria and her idols? 12 Wherefore it shall come to passe, that assoone as the Lorde hath perfourmed his whole worke vpon the hill of Sion and Hierusalem, then wyll I visite the fruite of the stoute heart of the kyng of Assyria with his proude lookes. 13 For he standeth thus in his owne conceipt, This do I thorowe the power of myne owne hande, & thorowe my wysdome: for I am wyse, I am he that remoue the landes of the people, I rob their treasure, and haue pulled downe the inhabitauntes like a valiaunt man. 14 My hand hath found out the strength of the people as it were a nest: and like as egges that were layde here and there, are gathered together, so do I gather all countreys, and there was none so bolde as to moue the winge, that dare open his mouth, or once whisper.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Nah 2:11
    87%

    11Where 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.

  • Job 4:10-11
    2 verses
    84%

    10The roring of the lion, and the voyce of the lion, and the teeth of the lions whelpes are pulled out.

    11The lion perisheth for lake of pray, & the lions whelpes are scattered abrode.

  • Nah 2:13
    82%

    13Behold 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 19:2-3
    2 verses
    82%

    2And say: wherfore lay thy mother that lionesse among the lions? she norished her young ones among the lions whelpes.

    3One of her whelpes she brought vp, and it be came a lion, it learned to catche the pray and to deuour folke.

  • Ezek 19:5-7
    3 verses
    82%

    5Nowe when she sawe that she had wayted and her hope was lost, she toke another of her whelpes and made a lion of hym.

    6Which went among the lions, and became a fearce lion, learned to catche the pray, and to deuour folke,

    7He destroyed their palaces and made their cities waste, insomuch that the whole lande and euery thyng therin were vtterly desolate through the voyce of his roaryng.

  • Jer 2:15
    81%

    15They rore and crye vpon him as lions, they haue made his lande waste: his cities are so burnt vp, that there is no man dwellyng in them:

  • Ps 17:12
    81%

    12Aryse O God, preuent his commyng, make hym to bowe: delyuer thou my soule from the vngodly which is thy sworde.

  • Isa 5:29
    80%

    29His crye is as it were of a Lion, and he roreth lyke Lions whelpes: they shall roare and hantche vpon the pray, and no man shall recouer it, nor get it from them.

  • Job 38:39-40
    2 verses
    80%

    39Wylt thou hunt the pray for the lion? or fill the appetite of the lions whelpes,

    40When they couche in their places, and tarie in the couert to lye in wayte?

  • Jer 25:38
    79%

    38They haue forsaken their foldes like as a lion: for their lande is waste because of the spoylers furious crueltie, and of his fearefull indignation.

  • Hos 13:7-8
    2 verses
    79%

    7Therfore wyll I be vnto them as a lion, and as a leoparde in the wayes to the Assyrians.

    8I wyll meete them as a she beare that is robbed of her whelpes, and I wyll breake that stubburne heart of theirs, there wyll I deuour them like a lion, yea the wylde beastes shall teare them.

  • Amos 3:4
    78%

    4Wyll a lion roare in the forest when he hath no pray? or wil a lions whelpe crye out of his denne, if he haue taken nothing?

  • Num 23:24
    78%

    24Beholde, the people shall ryse vp as a Lion, and heaue vp him self as a young Lion: He shall not lye downe, vntyll he eate of the pray, and drinke the blood of them that are slayne.

  • Jer 4:7
    77%

    7For 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.

  • Ps 104:21
    77%

    21The Lions do roare after a pray: and in seeking their meate of God.

  • Job 28:8
    77%

    8Wherin the lions whelpes walke not, and where no lion commeth.

  • Jer 51:38
    77%

    38They shall rose together lyke lions, and as the young lions when they be angry, so shall they bende them selues.

  • Jer 5:6
    77%

    6Wherfore a lion out of the wood hath hurt them, and a woolfe in the euenyng shall destroy them, the Leoparde doth lye lurkyng by their cities, to teare in peeces all them that come therout: for their offences are multiplied, and their departyng away is encreased.

  • Ps 22:13
    76%

    13They gape vpon me with their mouthes: as it were a rampyng and a roryng lion.

  • Joel 1:6
    76%

    6For a nation is come vp vpon my lande, mightie and without number: his teeth are as the teeth of a lion, and he hath the iawes of a great lion.

  • Isa 11:7
    75%

    7The Cowe and the Beare shall feede together, and their young ones shall lye together: the Lion shall eate strawe, lyke the Oxe or the Cowe.

  • Hos 5:14
    75%

    14I wyll be vnto Ephraim as a lion, and as a lions whelpe to the house of Iuda: I euen I wyll spoyle, and go my away: I wyll take away, and no man shall rescue.

  • 2 Kgs 17:25
    75%

    25And it fortuned, that at the beginning of their dwelling there, they feared not the Lorde, and the Lorde sent lions among them, which slue them.

  • Ps 58:6
    75%

    6Breake their teeth O Lorde in their mouthes: smite a sunder the chawe bones of Lions O God.

  • Isa 31:4
    74%

    4For thus hath the Lorde spoken vnto me: Lyke as the lion and lions whelpe roareth vpon the pray that he hath gotten, and is not afraide though the multitude of shepheardes crye out vpon him, neither be abashed for all the heape of them: so shall the Lorde of hoastes come downe to fight for mount Sion, and defende his hyll.

  • Isa 56:9
    74%

    9Come all ye beastes of the fielde, that ye may deuoure all the beastes of the wood.

  • Ps 7:2
    74%

    2Lest he like a Lion seasoneth on my soule: teareth it in peeces, hauyng no rescue.

  • Gen 49:9
    74%

    9Iuda 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?

  • Job 39:30
    74%

    30His young ones also sucke vp blood: and where any dead body lyeth, there is he.

  • Lam 3:10
    74%

    10He layeth wayte for me lyke a beare, and as a lion in a hole.

  • Ps 10:9
    74%

    9He lieth in wayte lurking as a Lion in his denne: he lyeth in wayte lurkyng, that he may violently carry away the afflicted, he doth carry away violentlye the afflicted, in halyng hym into his net.

  • Prov 30:30
    73%

    30A lion whiche is strongest among beastes, and shunneth not at the syght of any:

  • Hos 11:10
    73%

    10They shall walke after the Lorde, he shall rose like a lion: when he shall rose, then the children of the west shall feare.

  • Zeph 3:3
    73%

    3Her rulers within her are as roaring lions, her iudges are as wolues in the euening, whiche leaue nothing behinde them till the morowe.

  • Mic 5:8
    73%

    8Yea the residue of Iacob shalbe among the gentiles and the multitude of people, as the lion among the beastes of the wood, and as the lions whelpe among the flockes of sheepe: which whe he goeth through, treadeth downe, teareth in peeces, and there is no man that can deliuer.

  • Zech 11:3
    73%

    3Men may heare the shepheardes mourne, for their glory is destroyed: men may heare the lions whelpes roare, for the pride of Iordane is wasted away.

  • 1 Kgs 13:28
    73%

    28And he went, and founde his body cast in the way, and the asse and the lion stoode by the corse, and the lion had not eaten the carcasse, nor hurt the asse.

  • Jer 2:30
    72%

    30It is but lost labour that I smite your children, for they receaue not my correction: your owne sworde destroyeth your prophetes, lyke a deuouryng lion.

  • Amos 3:8
    72%

    8The lion hath roared, who wil not be afrayde? The Lorde God hath spoken, who can but prophecie?

  • Hab 2:17
    72%

    17For the crueltie of Libanus shall couer thee: so shal the spoyle of the beastes which he made afrayde, because of mens blood, and for the wrong done in the land, in the citie, and vnto all that dwell therin.

  • 1 Kgs 13:26
    72%

    26And when the prophet that brought him backe againe from the way heard thereof, he sayd: It is the man of God, he was disobedient vnto the word of the Lorde, and therefore the Lord hath deliuered him vnto the lion, which hath rent him, & slaine him according to the word of the Lorde which he spake vnto him.

  • Amos 3:12
    72%

    12Thus sayth the Lorde, As the sheephearde taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legges or a peece of an eare: so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria, in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus as in a couche.