Nahum 2:12

Geneva Bible (1560)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 51:34 : 34 Nebuchad-nezzar the King of Babel hath deuoured me, and destroyed me: he hath made me an emptie vessel: he swallowed mee vp like a dragon, and filled his belly with my delicates, and hath cast me out.
  • Ps 17:12 : 12 Like as a lyon that is greedy of pray, and as it were a lyons whelp lurking in secret places.
  • Isa 10:6-9 : 6 I will sende him to a dissembling nation, and I will giue him a charge against the people of my wrath to take the spoyle and to take the pray, and to treade them vnder feete like the mire in the streete. 7 But he thinketh not so, neither doeth his heart esteeme it so: but he imagineth to destroy and to cut off not a fewe nations. 8 For he sayeth, Are not my princes altogether Kings? 9 Is not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus? 10 Like as mine hand hath founde the kingdomes of the idoles, seeing their idoles were aboue Ierusalem, and aboue Samaria: 11 Shall not I, as I haue done to Samaria, and to the idoles thereof, so doe to Ierusalem and to the idoles thereof? 12 But when the Lorde hath accomplished all his worke vpon mount Zion and Ierusalem, I will visite the fruite of the proude heart of the King of Asshur, and his glorious and proud lookes, 13 Because he said, By ye power of mine owne hand haue I done it, and by my wisdome, because I am wise: therefore I haue remooued the borders of the people, and haue spoyled their treasures, and haue pulled downe the inhabitants like a valiant man. 14 And mine hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people, and as one gathereth egges that are left, so haue I gathered all the earth: and there was none to mooue the wing or to open the mouth, or to whisper.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Nah 2:11
    87%

    11 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.

  • 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.

  • Nah 2:13
    82%

    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.

  • Ezek 19:2-3
    2 verses
    82%

    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.

  • Ezek 19:5-7
    3 verses
    82%

    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
    81%

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

  • Ps 17:12
    81%

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

  • Isa 5:29
    80%

    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.

  • 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?

  • Jer 25:38
    79%

    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.

  • Hos 13:7-8
    2 verses
    79%

    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.

  • Amos 3:4
    78%

    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?

  • Num 23:24
    78%

    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.

  • Jer 4:7
    77%

    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.

  • Ps 104:21
    77%

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

  • Job 28:8
    77%

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

  • Jer 51:38
    77%

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

  • Jer 5:6
    77%

    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.

  • Ps 22:13
    76%

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

  • Joel 1:6
    76%

    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.

  • Isa 11:7
    75%

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

  • Hos 5:14
    75%

    14 For I will be vnto Ephraim as a lyon, and as a lyons whelpe to the house of Iudah: I, euen I will spoyle, and goe away: I will take away, and none shall rescue it.

  • 2 Kgs 17:25
    75%

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

  • Ps 58:6
    75%

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

  • Isa 31:4
    74%

    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.

  • Isa 56:9
    74%

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

  • Ps 7:2
    74%

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

  • Gen 49:9
    74%

    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 39:30
    74%

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

  • Lam 3:10
    74%

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

  • Ps 10:9
    74%

    9 He lyeth in waite secretly, euen as a lyon in his denne: he lyeth in waite to spoyle the poore: he doeth spoyle the poore, when he draweth him into his net.

  • Prov 30:30
    73%

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

  • Hos 11:10
    73%

    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.

  • Zeph 3:3
    73%

    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.

  • Mic 5:8
    73%

    8 And the remnant of Iaakob shalbe among the Gentiles in the middes of many people, as the lyon among the beastes of the forest, and as the lyons whelpe among the flockes of sheepe, who when he goeth thorow, treadeth downe and teareth in pieces, and none can deliuer.

  • Zech 11:3
    73%

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 13:28
    73%

    28 And he went and founde his body cast in the way, and the asse and the lion stoode by the corps: and the lion had not eaten the bodie, nor torne the asse.

  • Jer 2:30
    72%

    30 I haue smitten your children in vaine, they receiued no correction: your owne sworde hath deuoured your Prophets like a destroying lyon.

  • Amos 3:8
    72%

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

  • Hab 2:17
    72%

    17 For the crueltie of Lebanon shall couer thee: so shall the spoyle of the beastes, which made them afraide, because of mens blood, and for the wrong done in the land, in the citie, and vnto all that dwell therein.

  • 1 Kgs 13:26
    72%

    26 And when the Prophet that brought him backe againe from the waye, hearde thereof, hee sayde, It is the man of God, who hath bene disobedient vnto the commandement of the Lorde: therefore the Lorde hath deliuered him vnto the lion, which hath rent him and slayne him, according to the worde of the Lorde, which hee spake vnto him.

  • Amos 3:12
    72%

    12 Thus saieth the Lorde, As the shephearde taketh out of the mouth of the lyon two legges, or a piece 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.