Jeremiah 2:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Jer 4:7 : 7 The lion has come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the nations is on his way; he has gone forth from his place to make your land desolate; and your cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
  • Jer 50:17 : 17 Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven them away: first the king of Assyria has devoured him; and last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.
  • Isa 5:29 : 29 Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yes, they shall roar, and seize the prey, and shall carry it away safely, and none shall deliver it.
  • Isa 1:7 : 7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
  • Jer 9:11 : 11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
  • Jer 25:30 : 30 Therefore prophesy against them all these words, and say to them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter His voice from His holy habitation; He shall mightily roar upon His dwelling place; He shall 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 the LORD, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.
  • Jer 33:10 : 10 Thus says the LORD: Again there shall be heard in this place, which you say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast,
  • Jer 34:22 : 22 Behold, I will command, says the LORD, 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 an inhabitant.
  • Jer 44:22 : 22 So that the LORD could no longer bear it, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which you have committed; therefore your land is a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.
  • Isa 5:9 : 9 In my ears said the LORD of hosts, Truly many houses shall be desolate, even great and beautiful, without inhabitant.
  • Judg 14:5 : 5 Then Samson went down with his father and mother to Timnah, and came to the vineyards of Timnah. And behold, a young lion came roaring against him.
  • Job 4:10 : 10 The roaring of the lion and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
  • Ps 57:4 : 4 My soul is among lions, and 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? And He answered, Until the cities are laid waste without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land is utterly desolate,
  • Isa 24:1 : 1 Behold, the LORD makes the earth empty and makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters abroad its inhabitants.
  • Jer 5:6 : 6 Therefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: everyone that goes out from there shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings have increased.
  • Ezek 5:14 : 14 Moreover I will make you a waste, 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 as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.
  • Hos 11:10 : 10 They shall walk after the LORD; he shall roar like a lion: when he roars, then the children shall tremble from the west.
  • Hos 13:7-8 : 7 Therefore I will be to them as a lion: as a leopard by the way I will observe them: 8 I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, and will tear the covering of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.
  • Amos 3:4 : 4 Will a lion roar in the forest, when he has no prey? Will a young lion cry out of his den, if he has taken nothing?
  • Amos 3:8 : 8 The lion has roared, who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken, who can but prophesy?
  • Amos 3:12 : 12 Thus says the LORD: As the shepherd takes out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear, so shall the children of Israel be taken out who dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus on a couch.
  • Nah 2:11 : 11 Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's cub, and none made them afraid?
  • Zeph 1:18 : 18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD's wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of His jealousy: for He will make a speedy end of all those that dwell in the land.
  • Zeph 2:5 : 5 Woe to the inhabitants of the seacoast, the nation of the Cherethites! The word of the LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will destroy you, so there shall be no inhabitant.
  • Zeph 3:6 : 6 I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passes by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, no inhabitant.

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  • Jer 4:7
    82%

    7The lion has come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the nations is on his way; he has gone forth from his place to make your land desolate; and your cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.

  • Ezek 19:6-7
    2 verses
    82%

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

    7And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; the land was desolate, with all its fullness, by the noise of his roaring.

  • Nah 2:11-13
    3 verses
    81%

    11Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's cub, and none made them afraid?

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

    13Behold, I am against you, says the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions: and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers shall no more be heard.

  • Jer 25:37-38
    2 verses
    81%

    37And the peaceful habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

    38He has forsaken His shelter, like a lion; for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of His fierce anger.

  • Isa 5:29
    79%

    29Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yes, they shall roar, and seize the prey, and shall carry it away safely, and none shall deliver it.

  • Joel 1:6
    79%

    6For a nation has come up against my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the cheek teeth of a great lion.

  • Jer 2:16
    78%

    16Also the children of Noph and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of your head.

  • Jer 51:38
    77%

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

  • Job 4:10-11
    2 verses
    77%

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

    11The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the stout lion are scattered abroad.

  • Jer 2:14
    76%

    14Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he plundered?

  • Jer 5:6
    76%

    6Therefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: everyone that goes out from there shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings have increased.

  • Num 23:24
    75%

    24Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion and lift himself up like a young lion; he shall not lie down until he eats of the prey and drinks the blood of the slain.

  • Ps 79:7
    75%

    7For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.

  • Zeph 3:6
    75%

    6I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passes by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, no inhabitant.

  • Ps 17:12
    75%

    12Like a lion that is eager for its prey, and as a young lion lurking in secret places.

  • Isa 1:7
    75%

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

  • Lam 2:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2The Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings 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 defiled the kingdom and its princes.

    3He has cut off in His fierce anger all the strength of Israel: He has drawn back His right hand from before the enemy, and He burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours all around.

  • Jer 50:17
    74%

    17Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven them away: first the king of Assyria has devoured him; and last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.

  • Job 28:8
    74%

    8The lion's cubs have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by it.

  • Zech 11:3
    73%

    3There is the sound of the howling of the shepherds, for their glory is destroyed. The sound of the roaring of young lions, for the pride of Jordan is laid waste.

  • Ezek 19:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3And she brought up one of her cubs; it became a young lion, and it learned to catch prey; it devoured men.

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

  • Amos 3:4
    73%

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

  • Ezek 30:7
    73%

    7They will be desolate among the countries that are desolate, and her cities will be among the cities that are wasted.

  • Hab 2:17
    73%

    17For the violence of Lebanon shall cover you, and the spoil of beasts, which made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all who dwell therein.

  • 2 Kgs 17:25
    73%

    25At the beginning of their dwelling there, they did not fear the LORD; so the LORD sent lions among them, which killed some of them.

  • Ps 22:13
    73%

    13They gaped at me with their mouths, like a ravening and roaring lion.

  • Isa 27:10
    73%

    10Yet the fortified city shall be desolate, the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall it lie down and consume its branches.

  • Jer 10:25
    73%

    25Pour out your fury upon the heathen that do not know you, and upon the families that do not call on your name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.

  • Ezek 30:11
    73%

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

  • Joel 2:3
    73%

    3A fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burns; the land is like the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yes, and nothing shall escape them.

  • Jer 9:11
    73%

    11And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

  • Hos 11:6
    73%

    6And the sword shall remain on his cities, and shall destroy his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.

  • Lam 2:5
    72%

    5The Lord was like an enemy: He has swallowed up Israel, He has swallowed up all her palaces: He has destroyed His strongholds, and has increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

  • Job 15:28
    72%

    28And he dwells in desolate cities, and in houses which no one inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.

  • Jer 12:11
    72%

    11They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourns to Me; the whole land is made desolate, because no one lays it to heart.

  • Amos 3:11
    72%

    11Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: An adversary shall be all around the land; he shall bring down your strength from you, and your palaces shall be plundered.

  • Zeph 2:15
    72%

    15This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none besides me: how has she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! Everyone that passes by her shall hiss, and shake his hand.

  • Ezek 38:12
    72%

    12To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn your hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, who have acquired cattle and goods, who dwell in the midst of the land.

  • Hos 8:14
    72%

    14For Israel has forgotten his Maker, and builds temples; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities, but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces there.

  • Mic 5:8
    72%

    8And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he goes through, both treads down and tears in pieces, and none can deliver.

  • Nah 2:2
    72%

    2For the LORD has turned away the grandeur of Jacob, as the grandeur of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and ruined their vine branches.

  • Deut 32:24
    72%

    24They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.

  • Hos 13:8
    72%

    8I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, and will tear the covering of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.