Nahum 2:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with prey, and his dens with plunder.

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  • Jer 51:34 : 34 Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel; he has swallowed me up like a monster, he has filled his belly with my delicacies, he has thrown me out.
  • Ps 17:12 : 12 Like a lion that is eager for its prey, and as a young lion lurking in secret places.
  • Isa 10:6-9 : 6 I will send him against a hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. 7 Yet he does not mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off not a few nations. 8 For he says, Are not my princes altogether kings? 9 Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus? 10 As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose carved images surpassed those of Jerusalem and Samaria; 11 Shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, also do to Jerusalem and her idols? 12 Therefore, it shall come to pass, that when the Lord has performed all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks. 13 For he says, By the strength of my hand, I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the boundaries of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have brought down the inhabitants like a valiant man; 14 And my hand has found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathers eggs that are left, I have gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or chirped.

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    11Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's cub, and none made them afraid?

  • 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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  • Nah 2:13
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    13Behold, I am against you, says the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions: and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers shall no more be heard.

  • Ezek 19:2-3
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    2And say, What is your mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her cubs among young lions.

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  • Ezek 19:5-7
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    82%

    5Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her cubs, and made him a young lion.

    6And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch prey, and devoured men.

    7And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; the land was desolate, with all its fullness, by the noise of his roaring.

  • Jer 2:15
    81%

    15The young lions have roared at him, and yelled, and they have made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.

  • Ps 17:12
    81%

    12Like a lion that is eager for its prey, and as a young lion lurking in secret places.

  • Isa 5:29
    80%

    29Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yes, they shall roar, and seize the prey, and shall carry it away safely, and none shall deliver it.

  • Job 38:39-40
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    80%

    39Will you hunt the prey for the lion, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

    40When they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thickets?

  • Jer 25:38
    79%

    38He has forsaken His shelter, like a lion; for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of His fierce anger.

  • Hos 13:7-8
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    7Therefore I will be to them as a lion: as a leopard by the way I will observe them:

    8I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, and will tear the covering of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.

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    78%

    4Will a lion roar in the forest, when he has no prey? Will a young lion cry out of his den, if he has taken nothing?

  • Num 23:24
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    24Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion and lift himself up like a young lion; he shall not lie down until he eats of the prey and drinks the blood of the slain.

  • Jer 4:7
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    7The lion has come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the nations is on his way; he has gone forth from his place to make your land desolate; and your cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.

  • Ps 104:21
    77%

    21The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God.

  • Job 28:8
    77%

    8The lion's cubs have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by it.

  • Jer 51:38
    77%

    38They shall roar together like lions; they shall growl like lions' cubs.

  • Jer 5:6
    77%

    6Therefore 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: everyone that goes out from there shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings have increased.

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    13They gaped at me with their mouths, like a ravening and roaring lion.

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    76%

    6For a nation has come up against my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the cheek teeth of a great lion.

  • Isa 11:7
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    7And the cow and the bear shall graze; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

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    25At the beginning of their dwelling there, they did not fear the LORD; so the LORD sent lions among them, which killed some of them.

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    75%

    6Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.

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    74%

    4For thus has the LORD spoken to me, Like a lion and the young lion roaring over his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor humble himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for Mount Zion, and for its hill.

  • Isa 56:9
    74%

    9All you beasts of the field, come to devour, yes, all you beasts in the forest.

  • Ps 7:2
    74%

    2Lest they tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

  • Gen 49:9
    74%

    9Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, you have gone up: he stooped down, he crouched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?

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    30Its young ones also drink blood; and where the slain are, there it is.

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    74%

    10He was to me like a bear lying in wait, and like a lion in hiding.

  • Ps 10:9
    74%

    9He lies in wait secretly, as a lion in his den; he lies in wait to catch the poor; he catches the poor when he draws him into his net.

  • Prov 30:30
    73%

    30A lion, which is mighty among beasts, and does not turn away from anything;

  • Hos 11:10
    73%

    10They shall walk after the LORD; he shall roar like a lion: when he roars, then the children shall tremble from the west.

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    3Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they do not gnaw the bones until the morning.

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    8And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he goes through, both treads down and tears in pieces, and none can deliver.

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    73%

    3There is the sound of the howling of the shepherds, for their glory is destroyed. The sound of the roaring of young lions, for the pride of Jordan is laid waste.

  • 1 Kgs 13:28
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    30In vain have I struck your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

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    8The lion has roared, who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken, who can but prophesy?

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    17For the violence of Lebanon shall cover you, 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 who dwell therein.

  • 1 Kgs 13:26
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    26And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard of it, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient to the word of the LORD: therefore the LORD has delivered him to the lion, which has torn him and slain him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke to him.

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    12Thus says the LORD: As the shepherd takes out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear, so shall the children of Israel be taken out who dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus on a couch.