Jeremiah 2:15

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עָלָיו֙ יִשְׁאֲג֣וּ כְפִרִ֔ים נָתְנ֖וּ קוֹלָ֑ם וַיָּשִׁ֤יתוּ אַרְצוֹ֙ לְשַׁמָּ֔ה עָרָ֥יו נִצְּת֖וּ מִבְּלִ֥י יֹשֵֽׁב׃

Transliteration

ʿālāyw yišʾăgû kəpirîm nātnû qôlām wa-yāšîtû ʾarṣô lə-šammāh ʿārāyw niṣṣətû mibblî yōšēb

Grammar Details

*ʿālāyw*: preposition + 3rd masculine singular suffix - against him
*yišʾăgû*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they roar
*kəpirîm*: noun, masculine plural - young lions
*nātnû*: qal perfect, 3rd common plural - they gave
*qôlām*: noun, masculine singular + 3rd masculine plural suffix - their voice
*wa-yāšîtû*: conjunction + qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - and they made
*ʾarṣô*: noun, feminine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his land
*lə-šammāh*: preposition + noun, feminine singular - for a desolation
*ʿārāyw*: noun, feminine plural + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his cities
*niṣṣətû*: niphal perfect, 3rd common plural - are burned
*mibblî*: preposition + negative particle - without
*yōšēb*: qal participle, masculine singular - inhabitant

Word Meanings

*yišʾăgû*: roar/growl
*kəpirîm*: young lions/lion cubs
*nātnû*: gave/uttered/delivered
*qôlām*: their voice/their sound
*yāšîtû*: made/set/placed
*šammāh*: desolation/waste/horror
*niṣṣətû*: are burned/set on fire/destroyed by fire
*mibblî*: without/with none/for lack of
*yōšēb*: inhabitant/dweller/resident

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Referenced Verses

Jer 4:7 : 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.
Jer 50:17 : 17 Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
Isa 5:29 : 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.
Isa 1:7 : 7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
Jer 9:11 : 11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
Jer 25:30 : 30 Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.
Jer 26:9 : 9 Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.
Jer 33:10 : 10 Thus saith the LORD; Again there shall be heard in this place, which ye say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast,
Jer 34:22 : 22 Behold, I will command, saith the LORD, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.
Jer 44:22 : 22 So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.
Isa 5:9 : 9 In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
Judg 14:5 : 5 Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion roared against him.
Job 4:10 : 10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
Ps 57:4 : 4 My soul is among lions: and I lie{H8799)} even among them that are set on fire{H8802)}, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Isa 6:11 : 11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,
Isa 24:1 : 1 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
Jer 5:6 : 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.
Ezek 5:14 : 14 Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.
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 take away, and none shall rescue him.
Hos 11:10 : 10 They shall walk after the LORD: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west.
Hos 13:7-8 : 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.
Amos 3:4 : 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?
Amos 3:8 : 8 The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?
Amos 3:12 : 12 Thus saith the LORD; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch.
Nah 2:11 : 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?
Zeph 1:18 : 18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
Zeph 2:5 : 5 Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.
Zeph 3:6 : 6 I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Jer 4:7
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7The 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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6And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.
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Nah 2:11-13
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11Where 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?
12The 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.
13Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD 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.
Jer 25:37-38
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37And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
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Isa 5:29
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29Their 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.
Joel 1:6
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6For 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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Jer 51:38
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Job 4:10-11
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10The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
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Jer 2:14
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14Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?
Jer 5:6
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Ps 79:7
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Zeph 3:6
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Ps 17:12
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Lam 2:2-3
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Jer 50:17
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17Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
Job 28:8
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Amos 3:4
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4Will 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?
Ezek 30:7
73%
7And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.
Hab 2:17
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17For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, which made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
2 Kgs 17:25
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Ps 22:13
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13They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
Isa 27:10
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Jer 10:25
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25Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.
Ezek 30:11
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11He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.
Joel 2:3
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Jer 9:11
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11And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
Hos 11:6
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6And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.
Lam 2:5
72%
5The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
Job 15:28
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Jer 12:11
72%
11They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.
Amos 3:11
72%
11Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; An adversary there shall be even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled.
Zeph 2:15
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15This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.
Ezek 38:12
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Hos 8:14
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Mic 5:8
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Nah 2:2
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Deut 32:24
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Hos 13:8
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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 lion: the wild beast shall tear them.