Jeremiah 25:38

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The LORD is like a lion who has left his lair. So their lands will certainly be laid waste by the warfare of the oppressive nation and by the fierce anger of the LORD.”

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  • Jer 4:7 : 7 Like a lion that has come up from its lair the one who destroys nations has set out from his home base. He is coming out to lay your land waste. Your cities will become ruins and lie uninhabited.
  • Jer 5:6 : 6 So like a lion from the thicket their enemies will kill them. Like a wolf from the rift valley they will destroy them. Like a leopard they will lie in wait outside their cities and totally destroy anyone who ventures out. For they have rebelled so much and done so many unfaithful things.
  • Hos 5:14 : 14 The Lion Will Carry Israel Off Into Exile I will be like a lion to Ephraim, like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear them to pieces, then I will carry them off, and no one will be able to rescue them!
  • Hos 13:7-8 : 7 So I will pounce on them like a lion; like a leopard I will lurk by the path. 8 I will attack them like a bear robbed of her cubs– I will rip open their chests. I will devour them there like a lion– like a wild animal would tear them apart.
  • Amos 8:8 : 8 Because of this the earth will quake, and all who live in it will mourn. The whole earth will rise like the River Nile, it will surge upward and then grow calm, like the Nile in Egypt.
  • Zech 2:3 : 3 At this point the angelic messenger who spoke to me went out, and another messenger came to meet him
  • Hos 11:10 : 10 God Will Restore the Exiles to Israel He will roar like a lion, and they will follow the LORD; when he roars, his children will come trembling from the west.
  • Jer 49:19 : 19 “A lion coming up from the thick undergrowth along the Jordan scatters the sheep in the pastureland around it. So too I will chase the Edomites off their land. Then I will appoint over it whomever I choose. For there is no one like me, and there is no one who can call me to account. There is no ruler who can stand up against me.
  • Jer 50:44 : 44 “A lion coming up from the thick undergrowth along the Jordan scatters the sheep in the pastureland around it. So too I will chase the Babylonians off of their land. Then I will appoint over it whomever I choose. For there is no one like me. There is no one who can call me to account. There is no ruler that can stand up against me.
  • Ps 76:2 : 2 He lives in Salem; he dwells in Zion.

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  • Jer 25:36-37
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    83%

    36Listen to the cries of anguish of the leaders. Listen to the wails of the shepherds of the flocks. They are wailing because the LORD is about to destroy their lands.

    37Their peaceful dwelling places will be laid waste by the fierce anger of the LORD.

  • Jer 4:7-8
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    7Like a lion that has come up from its lair the one who destroys nations has set out from his home base. He is coming out to lay your land waste. Your cities will become ruins and lie uninhabited.

    8So put on sackcloth! Mourn and wail, saying,‘The fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us!’”

  • Ezek 19:7
    81%

    7He broke down their strongholds and devastated their cities. The land and everything in it was frightened at the sound of his roaring.

  • Jer 2:15
    81%

    15Like lions his enemies roar victoriously over him; they raise their voices in triumph. They have laid his land waste; his cities have been burned down and deserted.

  • Nah 2:11-13
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    11Taunt against the Once-Mighty Lion Where now is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion, lioness, and lion cub once prowled and no one disturbed them?

    12The lion tore apart as much prey as his cubs needed and strangled prey for his lionesses; he filled his lairs with prey and his dens with torn flesh.

    13Battle Cry of the Divine Warrior“I am against you!” declares the LORD of Heaven’s Armies:“I will burn your chariots with fire; the sword will devour your young lions; you will no longer prey upon the land; the voices of your messengers will no longer be heard.”

  • Ps 17:12
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    12He is like a lion that wants to tear its prey to bits, like a young lion crouching in hidden places.

  • Jer 5:6
    77%

    6So like a lion from the thicket their enemies will kill them. Like a wolf from the rift valley they will destroy them. Like a leopard they will lie in wait outside their cities and totally destroy anyone who ventures out. For they have rebelled so much and done so many unfaithful things.

  • Isa 5:29
    76%

    29Their roar is like a lion’s; they roar like young lions. They growl and seize their prey; they drag it away and no one can come to the rescue.

  • Isa 27:10
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    10For the fortified city is left alone; it is a deserted settlement and abandoned like the wilderness. Calves graze there; they lie down there and eat its branches bare.

  • Job 28:8
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    8Proud beasts have not set foot on it, and no lion has passed along it.

  • Job 4:10-11
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    76%

    10There is the roaring of the lion and the growling of the young lion, but the teeth of the young lions are broken.

    11The mighty lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

  • Hos 13:7-8
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    7So I will pounce on them like a lion; like a leopard I will lurk by the path.

    8I will attack them like a bear robbed of her cubs– I will rip open their chests. I will devour them there like a lion– like a wild animal would tear them apart.

  • Lam 3:10-11
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    10ד(Dalet) To me he is like a bear lying in ambush, like a hidden lion stalking its prey.

    11He has obstructed my paths and torn me to pieces; he has made me desolate.

  • Joel 1:6-7
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    75%

    6For a nation has invaded my land, mighty and without number. Their teeth are lion’s teeth; they have the fangs of a lioness.

    7They have destroyed my vines; they have turned my fig trees into mere splinters. They have completely stripped off the bark and thrown it aside; the twigs are stripped bare.

  • Lam 2:2-3
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    2ב(Bet) The Lord destroyed mercilessly all the homes of Jacob’s descendants. In his anger he tore down the fortified cities of Daughter Judah. He knocked to the ground and humiliated the kingdom and its rulers.

    3ג(Gimel) In fierce anger he destroyed the whole army of Israel. He withdrew his right hand as the enemy attacked. He was like a raging fire in the land of Jacob; it consumed everything around it.

  • Zech 11:3
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    3Listen to the howling of shepherds, because their magnificence has been destroyed. Listen to the roaring of young lions, because the thickets of the Jordan have been devastated.

  • Ps 79:7
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    7For they have devoured Jacob and destroyed his home.

  • Prov 28:15
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    15Like a roaring lion or a roving bear, so is a wicked ruler over a poor people.

  • Jer 12:11
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    11They will lay it waste. It will lie parched and empty before me. The whole land will be laid waste. But no one living in it will pay any heed.

  • Ps 10:9
    73%

    9He lies in ambush in a hidden place, like a lion in a thicket; he lies in ambush, waiting to catch the oppressed; he catches the oppressed by pulling in his net.

  • Jer 50:17
    73%

    17“The people of Israel are like scattered sheep which lions have chased away. First the king of Assyria devoured them. Now last of all King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has gnawed their bones.

  • Lam 2:5-6
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    73%

    5ה(He) The Lord, like an enemy, destroyed Israel. He destroyed all her palaces; he ruined her fortified cities. He made everyone in Daughter Judah mourn and lament.

    6ו(Vav) He destroyed his temple as if it were a vineyard; he destroyed his appointed meeting place. The LORD has made those in Zion forget both the festivals and the Sabbaths. In his fierce anger he has spurned both king and priest.

  • Isa 31:4
    73%

    4The Lord Will Defend Zion Indeed, this is what the LORD has said to me:“The LORD will be like a growling lion, like a young lion growling over its prey. Though a whole group of shepherds gathers against it, it is not afraid of their shouts or intimidated by their yelling. In this same way the LORD of Heaven’s Armies will descend to do battle on Mount Zion and on its hill.

  • Hos 5:14
    73%

    14The Lion Will Carry Israel Off Into Exile I will be like a lion to Ephraim, like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear them to pieces, then I will carry them off, and no one will be able to rescue them!

  • Isa 17:9
    73%

    9At that time their fortified cities will be like the abandoned summits of the Amorites, which they abandoned because of the Israelites; there will be desolation.

  • Jer 9:10
    73%

    10The Coming Destruction Calls For Mourning I said,“I will weep and mourn for the grasslands on the mountains, I will sing a mournful song for the pastures in the wilderness because they are so scorched no one travels through them. The sound of livestock is no longer heard there. Even the birds in the sky and the wild animals in the fields have fled and are gone.”

  • Lam 5:18
    73%

    18For wild animals are prowling over Mount Zion, which lies desolate.

  • Isa 5:25
    73%

    25So the LORD is furious with his people; he lifts his hand and strikes them. The mountains shake, and corpses lie like manure in the middle of the streets. Despite all this, his anger does not subside, and his hand is ready to strike again.

  • Isa 6:12
    73%

    12and the LORD has sent the people off to a distant place, and the very heart of the land is completely abandoned.

  • Mic 5:8
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    8Those survivors from Jacob will live among the nations, in the midst of many peoples. They will be like a lion among the animals of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep, which attacks when it passes through; it rips its prey and there is no one to stop it.

  • Job 15:28
    73%

    28he lived in ruined towns and in houses where no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps.

  • Isa 42:25
    72%

    25So he poured out his fierce anger on them, along with the devastation of war. Its flames encircled them, but they did not realize it; it burned against them, but they did not take it to heart.

  • Num 23:24
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    24Indeed, the people will rise up like a lioness, and like a lion raises himself up; they will not lie down until they eat their prey, and drink the blood of the slain.”

  • Jer 50:3
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    3For a nation from the north will attack Babylon. It will lay her land waste. People and animals will flee out of it. No one will inhabit it.’

  • Lam 4:11
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    11כ(Kaf) The LORD fully vented his wrath; he poured out his fierce anger. He started a fire in Zion; it consumed her foundations.

  • Mic 7:13
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    13The earth will become desolate because of what its inhabitants have done.

  • Job 18:4
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    4You who tear yourself to pieces in your anger, will the earth be abandoned for your sake? Or will a rock be moved from its place?

  • Isa 13:14
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    14Like a frightened gazelle or a sheep with no shepherd, each will turn toward home, each will run to his homeland.

  • Ps 22:13
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    13They open their mouths to devour me like a roaring lion that rips its prey.

  • Ps 80:13
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    13The wild boars of the forest ruin it; the insects of the field feed on it.