Nahum 2:12
The 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.
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- Jer 51:34 : 34 “King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon devoured me and drove my people out. Like a monster from the deep he swallowed me. He filled his belly with my riches. He made me an empty dish. He completely cleaned me out.”
- Ps 17:12 : 12 He is like a lion that wants to tear its prey to bits, like a young lion crouching in hidden places.
- Isa 10:6-9 : 6 I sent him against a godless nation, I ordered him to attack the people with whom I was angry, to take plunder and to carry away loot, to trample them down like dirt in the streets. 7 But he does not agree with this, his mind does not reason this way, for his goal is to destroy, and to eliminate many nations. 8 Indeed, he says:“Are not my officials all kings? 9 Is not Calneh like Carchemish? Hamath like Arpad? Samaria like Damascus? 10 I overpowered kingdoms ruled by idols, whose carved images were more impressive than Jerusalem’s or Samaria’s. 11 As I have done to Samaria and its idols, so I will do to Jerusalem and its idols.” 12 But when the Lord finishes judging Mount Zion and Jerusalem, then I will punish the king of Assyria for what he has proudly planned and for the arrogant attitude he displays. 13 For he says:“By my strong hand I have accomplished this, by my strategy that I devised. I invaded the territory of nations, and looted their storehouses. Like a mighty conqueror, I brought down rulers. 14 My hand discovered the wealth of the nations, as if it were in a nest, as one gathers up abandoned eggs, I gathered up the whole earth. There was no wing flapping, or open mouth chirping.”
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11 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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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.
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13 Battle 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.”
- Ezek 19:2-32 verses82%
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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12 He is like a lion that wants to tear its prey to bits, like a young lion crouching in hidden places.
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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.
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39 “Do you hunt prey for the lioness, and satisfy the appetite of the lions,
40 when they crouch in their dens, when they wait in ambush in the thicket?
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38 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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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.
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4 Does 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?
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24 Indeed, 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.”
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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.
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21 The lions roar for prey, seeking their food from God.
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8 Proud beasts have not set foot on it, and no lion has passed along it.
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38 The Babylonians are all like lions roaring for prey. They are like lion cubs growling for something to eat.
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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.
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13 They open their mouths to devour me like a roaring lion that rips its prey.
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6 For a nation has invaded my land, mighty and without number. Their teeth are lion’s teeth; they have the fangs of a lioness.
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7 A cow and a bear will graze together, their young will lie down together. A lion, like an ox, will eat straw.
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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!
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25 When they first moved in, they did not worship the LORD. So the LORD sent lions among them and the lions were killing them.
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6 O God, break the teeth in their mouths! Smash the jawbones of the lions, O LORD!
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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.
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9 The Lord Denounces Israel’s Paganism All you wild animals in the fields, come and devour, all you wild animals in the forest!
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2 Otherwise they will rip me to shreds like a lion; they will tear me to bits and no one will be able to rescue me.
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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?
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30 And its young ones devour the blood, and where the dead carcasses are, there it is.”
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10 ד(Dalet) To me he is like a bear lying in ambush, like a hidden lion stalking its prey.
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9 He 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.
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30 a lion, mightiest of the beasts, who does not retreat from anything;
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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.
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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.
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8 Those 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.
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3 Listen 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.
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28 He went and found the body lying in the road with the donkey and the lion standing beside it; the lion had neither eaten the body nor attacked the donkey.
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30 “It did no good for me to punish your people. They did not respond to such correction. You slaughtered your prophets like a voracious lion.”
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8 A lion has roared! Who is not afraid? The Sovereign LORD has spoken! Who can refuse to prophesy?
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17 For you will pay in full for your violent acts against Lebanon; terrifying judgment will come upon you because of the way you destroyed the wild animals living there. You have shed human blood and committed violent acts against lands, cities, and those who live in them.
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26 When the old prophet who had invited him to his house heard the news, he said,“It is the prophet who rebelled against the LORD. The LORD delivered him over to the lion and it tore him up and killed him, in keeping with the LORD’S message that he had spoken to him.”
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12 This is what the LORD says:“Just as a shepherd salvages from the lion’s mouth a couple of leg bones or a piece of an ear, so the Israelites who live in Samaria will be salvaged. They will be left with just a corner of a bed, and a part of a couch.”