Jeremiah 2:15

World English Bible (2000)

The young lions have roared at him, and yelled. They have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.

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  • Jer 4:7 : 7 A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.
  • Jer 50:17 : 17 Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away: first, the king of Assyria devoured him; and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.
  • Isa 5:29 : 29 Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, and seize their prey and carry it off, and there will be no one to deliver.
  • Isa 1:7 : 7 Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
  • Jer 9:11 : 11 I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.
  • Jer 25:30 : 30 Therefore prophesy you against them all these words, and tell them, Yahweh will roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he will mightily roar against his fold; he will give a shout, as those who tread [the grapes], against all the inhabitants of the earth.
  • Jer 26:9 : 9 Why have you prophesied in the name of Yahweh, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without inhabitant? All the people were gathered to Jeremiah in the house of Yahweh.
  • Jer 33:10 : 10 Thus says Yahweh: Yet again there shall be heard in this place, about which you say, It is waste, without man and without animal, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without animal,
  • Jer 34:22 : 22 Behold, I will command, says Yahweh, 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 inhabitant.
  • Jer 44:22 : 22 so that Yahweh could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which you have committed; therefore your land has become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.
  • Isa 5:9 : 9 In my ears, Yahweh of Armies says: "Surely many houses will be desolate, even great and beautiful, unoccupied.
  • Judg 14:5 : 5 Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnah, and came to the vineyards of Timnah: and behold, a young lion roared against him.
  • Job 4:10 : 10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
  • Ps 57:4 : 4 My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
  • Isa 6:11 : 11 Then I said, "Lord, how long?" He answered, "Until cities are waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land becomes utterly waste,
  • Isa 24:1 : 1 Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants.
  • Jer 5:6 : 6 Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; everyone who goes out there shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, [and] their backsliding is increased.
  • Ezek 5:14 : 14 Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are around you, in the sight of all that pass by.
  • Hos 5:14 : 14 For I will be to Ephraim like a lion, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear in pieces and go away. I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver.
  • Hos 11:10 : 10 They will walk after Yahweh, who will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children will come trembling from the west.
  • Hos 13:7-8 : 7 Therefore I am like a lion to them. Like a leopard, I will lurk by the path. 8 I will meet them like a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, and will tear the covering of their heart. There I will devour them like a lioness. The wild animal will tear them.
  • Amos 3:4 : 4 Will a lion roar in the thicket, when he has no prey? Does a young lion cry out of his den, if he has caught nothing?
  • Amos 3:8 : 8 The lion has roared. Who will not fear? The Lord Yahweh has spoken. Who can but prophesy?
  • Amos 3:12 : 12 Thus says Yahweh: "As the shepherd rescues out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear, so shall the children of Israel be rescued who sit in Samaria on the corner of a couch, and on the silken cushions of a bed."
  • Nah 2:11 : 11 Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, the lion's cubs, and no one made them afraid?
  • Zeph 1:18 : 18 Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh's wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.
  • Zeph 2:5 : 5 Woe to the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! The word of Yahweh is against you, Canaan, the land of the Philistines. I will destroy you, that there will be no inhabitant.
  • Zeph 3:6 : 6 I have cut off nations. Their battlements are desolate. I have made their streets waste, so that no one passes by. Their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant.

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  • Jer 4:7
    82%

    7 A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.

  • Ezek 19:6-7
    2 verses
    82%

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

    7 He knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and its fullness, because of the noise of his roaring.

  • Nah 2:11-13
    3 verses
    81%

    11 Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, the lion's cubs, and no one made them afraid?

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

    13 "Behold, I am against you," says Yahweh of Armies, "and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard."

  • Jer 25:37-38
    2 verses
    81%

    37 The peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of Yahweh.

    38 He has left his covert, as the lion; for their land is become an astonishment because of the fierceness of the oppressing [sword], and because of his fierce anger.

  • Isa 5:29
    79%

    29 Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, and seize their prey and carry it off, and there will be no one to deliver.

  • Joel 1:6
    79%

    6 For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness.

  • Jer 2:16
    78%

    16 The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of your head.

  • Jer 51:38
    77%

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

  • Job 4:10-11
    2 verses
    77%

    10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

    11 The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.

  • Jer 2:14
    76%

    14 Is Israel a servant? Is he a native-born [slave]? Why has he become a prey?

  • Jer 5:6
    76%

    6 Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; everyone who goes out there shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, [and] their backsliding is increased.

  • Num 23:24
    75%

    24 Behold, the people rises up as a lioness, As a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain."

  • Ps 79:7
    75%

    7 For they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland.

  • Zeph 3:6
    75%

    6 I have cut off nations. Their battlements are desolate. I have made their streets waste, so that no one passes by. Their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant.

  • Ps 17:12
    75%

    12 He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

  • Isa 1:7
    75%

    7 Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

  • Lam 2:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2 The Lord has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied: He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground; he has profaned the kingdom and its princes.

    3 He has cut off in fierce anger all the horn of Israel; He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy: He has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours all around.

  • Jer 50:17
    74%

    17 Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away: first, the king of Assyria devoured him; and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.

  • Job 28:8
    74%

    8 The proud animals have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by there.

  • Zech 11:3
    73%

    3 A voice of the wailing of the shepherds! For their glory is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions! For the pride of the Jordan is ruined.

  • Ezek 19:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3 She brought up one of her cubs: he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.

    4 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.

  • Amos 3:4
    73%

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

  • Ezek 30:7
    73%

    7 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
    73%

    17 For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of the animals, which made them afraid; because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to every city and to those who dwell in them.

  • 2 Kgs 17:25
    73%

    25 So it was, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they didn't fear Yahweh: therefore Yahweh sent lions among them, which killed some of them.

  • Ps 22:13
    73%

    13 They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.

  • Isa 27:10
    73%

    10 For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches.

  • Jer 10:25
    73%

    25 Pour out your wrath on the nations that don't know you, and on the families that don't call on your name: for they have devoured Jacob, yes, they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.

  • Ezek 30:11
    73%

    11 He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought in to destroy the land; and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.

  • Joel 2:3
    73%

    3 A fire devours before them, and behind them, a flame burns. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them, a desolate wilderness. Yes, and no one has escaped them.

  • Jer 9:11
    73%

    11 I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.

  • Hos 11:6
    73%

    6 The sword will fall on their cities, and will destroy the bars of their gates, and will put an end to their plans.

  • Lam 2:5
    72%

    5 The Lord is become as an enemy, he has swallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up all her palaces, he has destroyed his strongholds; He has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

  • Job 15:28
    72%

    28 He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.

  • Jer 12:11
    72%

    11 They have made it a desolation; it mourns to me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man lays it to heart.

  • Amos 3:11
    72%

    11 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "An adversary will overrun the land; and he will pull down your strongholds, and your fortresses will be plundered."

  • Zeph 2:15
    72%

    15 This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, "I am, and there is none besides me." How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.

  • Ezek 38:12
    72%

    12 to take the spoil and to take the prey; to turn your hand against the waste places that are [now] inhabited, and against the people who are gathered out of the nations, who have gotten livestock and goods, who dwell in the middle of the earth.

  • Hos 8:14
    72%

    14 For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire on his cities, and it will devour its fortresses."

  • Mic 5:8
    72%

    8 The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the animals of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep; who, if he goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is no one to deliver.

  • Nah 2:2
    72%

    2 For Yahweh restores the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel; for the destroyers have destroyed them, and ruined their vine branches.

  • Deut 32:24
    72%

    24 [They shall be] wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.

  • Hos 13:8
    72%

    8 I will meet them like a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, and will tear the covering of their heart. There I will devour them like a lioness. The wild animal will tear them.