Nahum 2:11

Geneva Bible (1560)

Where is the dwelling of the lyons, and the pasture of the lyons whelpes? where the lyon, and the lionesse walked, and the lyons whelpe, & none made them afrayde.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 5:29 : 29 His roaring shalbe like a lyon, and he shall roare like lyons whelpes: they shall roare, and lay holde of the praye: they shall take it away, and none shall deliuer it.
  • Jer 2:15 : 15 The lions roared vpon him & yelled, and they haue made his land waste: his cities are burnt without an inhabitant.
  • Jer 4:7 : 7 The lyon is come vp from his denne, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is departed, and gone forth of his place to lay thy land waste, and thy cities shalbe destroyed without an inhabitant.
  • Jer 50:17 : 17 Israel is like scattered sheepe: the lions haue dispersed them: first the King of Asshur hath deuoured him, and last this Nebuchad-nezzar King, of Babel hath broken his bones.
  • Jer 50:44 : 44 Beholde, hee shall come vp like a lyon from the swelling of Iorden vnto the strong habitation: for I will make Israel to rest, and I will make them to haste away from her: and who is a chosen man that I may appoynt against her? for who is like me, and who will appoynt me the time? and who is the shepheard that will stande before me?
  • Ezek 19:2-8 : 2 And say, Wherefore lay thy mother as a lyonesse among the lyons? she nourished her yong ones among the lyons whelps, 3 And she brought vp one of her whelps, and it became a lyon, and it learned to catch the praye, and it deuoured men. 4 The nations also heard of him, and he was taken in their nets, and they brought him in chaines vnto the land of Egypt. 5 Nowe when she sawe, that she had waited and her hope was lost, she tooke another of her whelps, and made him a lyon. 6 Which went among the lyons, and became a lyon, and learned to catch the praye, and he deuoured men. 7 And he knew their widowes, & he destroyed their cities, and the land was wasted, and all that was therein by the noyse of his roaring. 8 Then the nations set against him on euery side of the countreys, and laide their nets for him: so he was taken in their pit.
  • Nah 3:1 : 1 O bloodie citie, it is all full of lyes, and robberie: the pray departeth not:
  • Zeph 3:3 : 3 Her princes within her are as roaring lyons: her iudges are as wolues in the euening, which leaue not the bones till the morow.
  • Isa 31:4 : 4 For thus hath the Lord spoken vnto me, As the lyon or lyons whelpe roareth vpon his praye, against whom if a multitude of shepheards be called, hee will not be afraide at their voyce, neither will humble him selfe at their noise: so shall the Lord of hostes come downe to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.
  • Gen 49:9 : 9 Iudah, as a Lions whelpe shalt thou come vp from the spoyle, my sonne. He shall lye downe and couche as a Lion, and as a Lionesse: Who shall stirre him vp?
  • Job 4:10-11 : 10 The roaring of the Lion, and the voyce of the Lionesse, & the teeth of the Lions whelpes are broken. 11 The Lyon perisheth for lacke of pray, and the Lyons whelpes are scattered abroade.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Nah 2:12-13
    2 verses
    87%

    12 The lyon did teare in pieces ynough for his whelpes, and woryed for his lyonesse, and filled his holes with praye, and his dennes with, spoyle.

    13 Beholde, I come vnto thee, sayeth the Lord of hostes, and I will burne her charets in the smoke, and the sworde shall deuoure thy yong lyons, and I will cut off thy spoyle from the earth, and the voyce of thy messengers shall no more be heard.

  • Job 4:10-11
    2 verses
    84%

    10 The roaring of the Lion, and the voyce of the Lionesse, & the teeth of the Lions whelpes are broken.

    11 The Lyon perisheth for lacke of pray, and the Lyons whelpes are scattered abroade.

  • Job 28:8
    81%

    8 The lyons whelpes haue not walked it, nor the lyon passed thereby.

  • Amos 3:4
    80%

    4 Will a lion roare in ye forest, when he hath no pray? or wil a lions whelpe cry out of his den, if he haue taken nothing?

  • Job 38:39-40
    2 verses
    80%

    39 (39:1) Wilt thou hunt the pray for the lyon? or fill the appetite of the lyons whelpes,

    40 (39:2) When they couch in their places, and remaine in the couert to lye in waite?

  • Ezek 19:5-7
    3 verses
    79%

    5 Nowe when she sawe, that she had waited and her hope was lost, she tooke another of her whelps, and made him a lyon.

    6 Which went among the lyons, and became a lyon, and learned to catch the praye, and he deuoured men.

    7 And he knew their widowes, & he destroyed their cities, and the land was wasted, and all that was therein by the noyse of his roaring.

  • Jer 2:15
    79%

    15 The lions roared vpon him & yelled, and they haue made his land waste: his cities are burnt without an inhabitant.

  • Ps 17:12
    79%

    12 Like as a lyon that is greedy of pray, and as it were a lyons whelp lurking in secret places.

  • 2 Kgs 17:25-26
    2 verses
    79%

    25 And at the beginning of their dwelling there, they feared not the Lord: therefore the Lord sent lions among them, which slewe them.

    26 Wherefore they spake to the King of Asshur, saying, The nations which thou hast remoued, and placed in the cities of Samaria, knowe not the maner of the God of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among them, and behold, they slay them, because they knowe not the maner of the God of the land.

  • Ezek 19:2-3
    2 verses
    79%

    2 And say, Wherefore lay thy mother as a lyonesse among the lyons? she nourished her yong ones among the lyons whelps,

    3 And she brought vp one of her whelps, and it became a lyon, and it learned to catch the praye, and it deuoured men.

  • Ps 104:21
    78%

    21 The lions roare after their praye, and seeke their meate at God.

  • Isa 5:29
    77%

    29 His roaring shalbe like a lyon, and he shall roare like lyons whelpes: they shall roare, and lay holde of the praye: they shall take it away, and none shall deliuer it.

  • Isa 11:6-7
    2 verses
    76%

    6 The wolfe also shall dwell with the lambe, and the leopard shall lie with the kid, & the calfe, and the lyon, and the fat beast together, and a litle childe shall leade them.

    7 And the kowe and the beare shall feede: their yong ones shall lie together: and the lyon shall eate strawe like the bullocke.

  • Prov 30:30
    76%

    30 A lyon which is strong among beastes, and turneth not at the sight of any:

  • Jer 51:38
    76%

    38 They shal rore together like lions, and yell as the lyons whelpes.

  • Ps 22:13
    76%

    13 They gape vpon me with their mouthes, as a ramping and roaring lyon.

  • Nah 2:10
    76%

    10 She is emptie and voyde and waste, and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and sorowe is in all loynes, and the faces of the all gather blackenesse.

  • Hos 11:10
    75%

    10 They shall walke after the Lorde: he shall roare like a lyon: when hee shall roare, then the children of the West shall feare.

  • Jer 25:38
    75%

    38 He hath forsaken his couert, as the lyon: for their land is waste, because of the wrath of the oppressor, & because of ye wrath of his indignatio.

  • Jer 4:7
    75%

    7 The lyon is come vp from his denne, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is departed, and gone forth of his place to lay thy land waste, and thy cities shalbe destroyed without an inhabitant.

  • Joel 1:6
    75%

    6 Yea, a nation commeth vpon my lande, mightie, & without nomber, whose teeth are like the teeth of a lyon, and he hath the iawes of a great lyon.

  • Ps 7:2
    74%

    2 Least he deuoure my soule like a lion, and teare it in pieces, while there is none to helpe.

  • Num 23:24
    74%

    24 Behold, the people shal rise vp as a lyon, & lift vp himselfe as a yong lyon: hee shall not lye downe, till he eate of the pray, and till he drinke the blood of the slayne.

  • Ps 34:10
    74%

    10 The lyons doe lacke and suffer hunger, but they, which seeke the Lord, shall want nothing that is good.

  • Hos 13:7-8
    2 verses
    74%

    7 And I wil be vnto them as a very lyon, and as a leopard in the way of Asshur.

    8 I will meete them, as a beare that is robbed of her whelpes, and I will breake the kall of their heart, and there will I deuoure them like a lion: the wilde beast shall teare them.

  • 1 Kgs 13:25
    73%

    25 And beholde, men that passed by, sawe the carkeis cast in the way, and the lion standing by the corps: and they came and tolde it in ye towne where the olde Prophet dwelt.

  • Amos 3:8
    73%

    8 The lyon hath roared: who will not bee afraide? the Lord God hath spoken: who can but prophecie?

  • Gen 49:9
    73%

    9 Iudah, as a Lions whelpe shalt thou come vp from the spoyle, my sonne. He shall lye downe and couche as a Lion, and as a Lionesse: Who shall stirre him vp?

  • Jer 5:6
    73%

    6 Wherefore a lyon out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolfe of the wildernesse shall destroy them: a leopard shall watch ouer their cities: euery one that goeth out thence, shall be torne in pieces, because their trespasses are many, and their rebellions are increased.

  • Lam 3:10
    73%

    10 He was vnto me as a beare lying in waite, and as a Lion in secret places.

  • Isa 35:9
    72%

    9 There shall be no lyon, nor noysome beastes shall ascend by it, neither shall they be found there, that the redeemed may walke.

  • Prov 28:1
    72%

    1 The wicked flee when none pursueth: but the righteous are bolde as a lyon.

  • Ps 58:6
    72%

    6 Breake their teeth, O God, in their mouthes: breake the iawes of the yong lions, O Lorde.

  • Isa 56:9
    72%

    9 All ye beastes of the fielde, come to deuoure, euen all ye beastes of the forest.

  • Zech 11:3
    72%

    3 There is the voyce of the houling of the shepherdes: for their glorie is destroyed: the voyce of ye roaring of lyons whelpes: for the pride of Iorden is destroyed.

  • Job 39:30
    72%

    30 (39:33) His young ones also sucke vp blood: and where the slaine are, there is she.

  • Job 37:8
    72%

    8 Then the beastes go into the denne, and remaine in their places.

  • Prov 22:13
    72%

    13 The slouthfull man saith, A lyon is without, I shall be slaine in the streete.

  • Isa 31:4
    71%

    4 For thus hath the Lord spoken vnto me, As the lyon or lyons whelpe roareth vpon his praye, against whom if a multitude of shepheards be called, hee will not be afraide at their voyce, neither will humble him selfe at their noise: so shall the Lord of hostes come downe to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.