Verse 2

And say: wherfore lay thy mother that lionesse among the lions? she norished her young ones among the lions whelpes.

Referenced Verses

  • Job 4:11 : 11 The lion perisheth for lake of pray, & the lions whelpes are scattered abrode.
  • Ps 58:6 : 6 Breake their teeth O Lorde in their mouthes: smite a sunder the chawe bones of Lions O God.
  • Isa 5:29 : 29 His crye is as it were of a Lion, and he roreth lyke Lions whelpes: they shall roare and hantche vpon the pray, and no man shall recouer it, nor get it from them.
  • Isa 11:6-9 : 6 The Woolfe shall dwell with the Lambe, and the Leoparde shall lye downe by the Goate: Bullockes, Lions, and cattell, shall kepe company together, so that a litle chylde shall leade them. 7 The Cowe and the Beare shall feede together, and their young ones shall lye together: the Lion shall eate strawe, lyke the Oxe or the Cowe. 8 The chylde whyle he sucketh shall haue a desire to the serpentes nest, and when he is weaned, he shall put his hande into the Cockatrice denne. 9 No man shall do euill vnto another, no man shall destroy another in all the hyll of my holynes: for the earth shalbe full of the knowledge of the Lorde: euen as the sea floweth ouer with water.
  • Nah 2:11-12 : 11 Where is the abiding place of lions, and the feding plot of lions whelpes become, whyther the young and olde lion had their resort? there dwelt the lion, & there was no man to put him in feare. 12 The lion made his praye aboundauntly for his whelpes, and strangled for his she lions, and hath filled his dennes with pray, and his abyding places with spoyle.
  • Zeph 3:1-4 : 1 Wo to that abhominable, filthy, and cruel citie. 2 She hearde not the voyce, she receaued not correction, she trusted not in the Lorde, she drewe not neare to her God. 3 Her rulers within her are as roaring lions, her iudges are as wolues in the euening, whiche leaue nothing behinde them till the morowe. 4 Her prophetes are light persons & vnfaythful men, her priestes haue polluted the sanctuarie, & haue wrested the law.
  • Zech 11:3 : 3 Men may heare the shepheardes mourne, for their glory is destroyed: men may heare the lions whelpes roare, for the pride of Iordane is wasted away.