Nahum 2:12

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • 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, like a monster, swallowed me up, he has filled his maw with my delicacies; he has cast me out.
  • Ps 17:12 : 12 He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
  • Isa 10:6-9 : 6 I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me will I give him a command to take the spoil and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. 7 However he doesn't mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations. 8 For he says, "Aren't all of my princes kings? 9 Isn't Calno like Carchemish? Isn't Hamath like Arpad? Isn't Samaria like Damascus?" 10 As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images exceeded those of Jerusalem and of Samaria; 11 shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols? 12 Therefore it will happen that, when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his haughty looks. 13 For he has said, "By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding: and I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers. 14 My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, have I gathered all the earth. There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their mouth, or chirped."

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

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  • Ezek 19:2-3
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    2 and say, What was your mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her cubs.

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  • Ezek 19:5-7
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    5 Now 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.

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    15 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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    12 He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

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    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.

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    39 "Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

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    7 Therefore I am like a lion to them. Like a leopard, I will lurk by the path.

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    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?

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    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.

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

  • Job 28:8
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    8 The proud animals have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by there.

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

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    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.

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    7 The cow and the bear will graze. Their young ones will lie down together. The lion will eat straw like the ox.

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    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.

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    6 Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.

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    9 Judah is a lion's cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up?

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    30 His young ones also suck up blood. Where the slain are, there he is."

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    10 He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.

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    9 He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net.

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    30 The lion, which is mightiest among animals, and doesn't turn away for any;

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    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.

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    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.

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