Nahum 2:12

Webster's Bible (1833)

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 Nebuchadrezzar 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 of my wrath will I give him a charge, 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 my princes all of them kings? 9 Isn't Calno as Carchemish? Isn't Hamath as Arpad? Isn't Samaria as Damascus? 10 As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images did excel them 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 shall happen that, when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high 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 bounds of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures, and like a valiant man I have brought down those who sit [on thrones]: 14 and my hand has found as a nest the riches of the peoples; and as one gathers eggs that are forsaken, have I gathered all the earth: and there was none that moved the wing, or that opened the mouth, or chirped.

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    11Where 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?

  • Job 4:10-11
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    84%

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

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    13"Behold, I am against you," says Yahweh of Hosts, "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."

  • Ezek 19:2-3
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    82%

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

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

  • Ezek 19:5-7
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    5Now 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.

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

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

  • Jer 2:15
    81%

    15The young lions have roared on him, and yelled; and they have made his land waste: his cities are burned up, without inhabitant.

  • Ps 17:12
    81%

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

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    29Their 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.

  • Job 38:39-40
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    80%

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

    40When they crouch in their dens, And lie in wait in the thicket?

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    79%

    38He 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.

  • Hos 13:7-8
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    7Therefore am I to them like a lion; Like a leopard I will lurk by the path.

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

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    4Will 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?

  • Num 23:24
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    24Behold, the people rises up as a lioness, As a lion does he lift himself up: He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, Drink the blood of the slain.

  • Jer 4:7
    77%

    7A 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.

  • Ps 104:21
    77%

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

  • Job 28:8
    77%

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

  • Jer 51:38
    77%

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

  • Jer 5:6
    77%

    6Therefore 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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    76%

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

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    6For 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.

  • Isa 11:7
    75%

    7The cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

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    75%

    14For 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.

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    75%

    25So 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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    75%

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

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    74%

    4For thus says Yahweh to me, As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds are called forth against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so will Yahweh of Hosts come down to fight on Mount Zion, and on the hill of it.

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    74%

    9All you animals of the field, come to devour, [yes], all you animals in the forest.

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    74%

    2Lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, Ripping it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

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    74%

    9Judah 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?

  • Job 39:30
    74%

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

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    74%

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

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    74%

    9He 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.

  • Prov 30:30
    73%

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

  • Hos 11:10
    73%

    10They 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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    73%

    3Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.

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    73%

    8The 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.

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    73%

    3A 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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    28He went and found his body cast in the way, and the donkey and the lion standing by the body: the lion had not eaten the body, nor torn the donkey.

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    72%

    30In vain have I struck your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

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    8The lion has roared. Who will not fear? The Lord Yahweh has spoken. Who can but prophesy?

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    72%

    17For 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.

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    72%

    26When the prophet who brought him back from the way heard of it, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient to the mouth of Yahweh: therefore Yahweh has delivered him to the lion, which has torn him, and slain him, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke to him.

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    12Thus 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."