Nahum 2:11

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Taunt 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?

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  • Isa 5:29 : 29 Their 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.
  • Jer 2:15 : 15 Like 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.
  • 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 50:17 : 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.
  • 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.
  • Ezek 19:2-8 : 2 and say:“‘What a lioness was your mother among the lions! She lay among young lions; she reared her cubs. 3 She reared one of her cubs; he became a young lion. He learned to tear prey; he devoured people. 4 The nations heard about him; he was trapped in their pit. They brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt. 5 “‘When she realized that she waited in vain, her hope was lost. She took another of her cubs and made him a young lion. 6 He walked about among the lions; he became a young lion. He learned to tear prey; he devoured people. 7 He broke down their strongholds and devastated their cities. The land and everything in it was frightened at the sound of his roaring. 8 The nations– the surrounding regions– attacked him. They threw their net over him; he was caught in their pit.
  • Nah 3:1 : 1 Reason for Judgment: Sins of Nineveh Woe to the city guilty of bloodshed! She is full of lies; she is filled with plunder; she has hoarded her spoil!
  • Zeph 3:3 : 3 Her princes are as fierce as roaring lions; her rulers are as hungry as wolves in the desert, who completely devour their prey by morning.
  • Isa 31:4 : 4 The 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.
  • Gen 49:9 : 9 You are a lion’s cub, Judah, from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He crouches and lies down like a lion; like a lioness– who will rouse him?
  • Job 4:10-11 : 10 There is the roaring of the lion and the growling of the young lion, but the teeth of the young lions are broken. 11 The mighty lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Nah 2:12-13
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    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.”

  • Job 4:10-11
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    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.

  • Job 28:8
    81%

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

  • Amos 3:4
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    4Does a lion roar in the woods if he has not cornered his prey? Does a young lion bellow from his den if he has not caught something?

  • Job 38:39-40
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    39“Do you hunt prey for the lioness, and satisfy the appetite of the lions,

    40when they crouch in their dens, when they wait in ambush in the thicket?

  • Ezek 19:5-7
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    5“‘When she realized that she waited in vain, her hope was lost. She took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.

    6He walked about among the lions; he became a young lion. He learned to tear prey; he devoured people.

    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
    79%

    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.

  • 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.

  • 2 Kgs 17:25-26
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    25When they first moved in, they did not worship the LORD. So the LORD sent lions among them and the lions were killing them.

    26The king of Assyria was told,“The nations whom you deported and settled in the cities of Samaria do not know the requirements of the God of the land, so he has sent lions among them. They are killing the people because they do not know the requirements of the God of the land.”

  • Ezek 19:2-3
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    2and say:“‘What a lioness was your mother among the lions! She lay among young lions; she reared her cubs.

    3She reared one of her cubs; he became a young lion. He learned to tear prey; he devoured people.

  • Ps 104:21
    78%

    21The lions roar for prey, seeking their food from God.

  • Isa 5:29
    77%

    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 11:6-7
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    6A wolf will reside with a lamb, and a leopard will lie down with a young goat; an ox and a young lion will graze together, as a small child leads them along.

    7A cow and a bear will graze together, their young will lie down together. A lion, like an ox, will eat straw.

  • Prov 30:30
    76%

    30a lion, mightiest of the beasts, who does not retreat from anything;

  • Jer 51:38
    76%

    38The Babylonians are all like lions roaring for prey. They are like lion cubs growling for something to eat.

  • Ps 22:13
    76%

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

  • Nah 2:10
    76%

    10Destruction, devastation, and desolation! Hearts faint; knees tremble; every stomach churns, all their faces have turned pale!

  • Hos 11:10
    75%

    10God 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 25:38
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    38The 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.”

  • Jer 4:7
    75%

    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.

  • Joel 1:6
    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.

  • Ps 7:2
    74%

    2Otherwise they will rip me to shreds like a lion; they will tear me to bits and no one will be able to rescue me.

  • Num 23:24
    74%

    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.”

  • Ps 34:10
    74%

    10Even young lions sometimes lack food and are hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.

  • Hos 13:7-8
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    74%

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 13:25
    73%

    25Then some men came passing by and saw the body lying in the road with the lion standing next to the body. They went and reported what they had seen in the city where the old prophet lived.

  • Amos 3:8
    73%

    8A lion has roared! Who is not afraid? The Sovereign LORD has spoken! Who can refuse to prophesy?

  • Gen 49:9
    73%

    9You are a lion’s cub, Judah, from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He crouches and lies down like a lion; like a lioness– who will rouse him?

  • Jer 5:6
    73%

    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.

  • Lam 3:10
    73%

    10ד(Dalet) To me he is like a bear lying in ambush, like a hidden lion stalking its prey.

  • Isa 35:9
    72%

    9No lions will be there, no ferocious wild animals will be on it– they will not be found there. Those delivered from bondage will travel on it,

  • Prov 28:1
    72%

    1Α wicked person fled, though no one was pursuing, but the righteous person can be as confident as a lion.

  • Ps 58:6
    72%

    6O God, break the teeth in their mouths! Smash the jawbones of the lions, O LORD!

  • Isa 56:9
    72%

    9The Lord Denounces Israel’s Paganism All you wild animals in the fields, come and devour, all you wild animals in the forest!

  • Zech 11:3
    72%

    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.

  • Job 39:30
    72%

    30And its young ones devour the blood, and where the dead carcasses are, there it is.”

  • Job 37:8
    72%

    8The wild animals go to their lairs, and in their dens they remain.

  • Prov 22:13
    72%

    13The sluggard has said,“There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the middle of the streets!”

  • Isa 31:4
    71%

    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.