Psalms 17:12
Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
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- Ps 7:2 : 2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
- Ps 10:9 : 9 He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
- Ps 22:13 : 13 They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
- 2 Tim 4:17 : 17 Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
- 1 Pet 5:8 : 8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
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10 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
- Ps 10:8-103 verses83%
8 He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
9 He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
10 He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
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12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
13 They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
- Nah 2:11-122 verses81%
11 Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid?
12 The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.
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7 Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them:
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 lion: the wild beast shall tear them.
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29 Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.
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11 They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;
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21 The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.
- Job 4:10-112 verses78%
10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
11 The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.
- Job 38:39-402 verses78%
39 Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,
40 When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?
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24 Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
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2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
- Ezek 19:6-72 verses77%
6 And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.
7 And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.
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38 He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.
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13 Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:
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2 And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
3 And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
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15 As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.
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4 Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?
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15 The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
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9 Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
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12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
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8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
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8 The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
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6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
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30 A lion which is strongest among beasts, and turneth not away for any;
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4 My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
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6 For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.
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17 Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
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18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
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19 Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
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6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
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16 For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
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7 The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
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10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.
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9 From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.
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4 For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.
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1 The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
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38 They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps.
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32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.
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6 Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.