KJV King James Version
The young lions roared upon him, [and] yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Jeremiah 2:15
The young lions roared upon him, [and] yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
The young lions have roared at him; they have sounded their voices. They have laid waste his land; his cities lie in ruins, without inhabitant.
WEB World English Bible
The young lions have roared at him, and yelled. They have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.
ASV American Standard Version
The young lions have roared upon him, and yelled; and they have made his land waste: his cities are burned up, without inhabitant.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Against him roar do young lions, They have given forth their voice, And make his land become a desolation, His cities have been burnt without inhabitant.
Surrounding context — Jeremiah 2
12 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, [and] hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
14 [Is] Israel a servant? [is] he a homeborn [slave]? why is he spoiled?
15 The young lions roared upon him, [and] yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
16 Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head.
17 Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?
18 And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?
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Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
עָלָיו֙H5921 · aluponיִשְׁאֲג֣וּH7580 · sha.agto roarכְפִרִ֔יםH3715 · ke.phirlionנָתְנ֖וּH5414 · na.tanto give: giveקוֹלָ֑םH6963 · qolvoiceוַיָּשִׁ֤יתוּH7896 · shitto set: makeאַרְצוֹ֙H776 · e.retsland: country/planetלְשַׁמָּ֔הH8047 · sham.mahhorror: destroyedעָרָ֥יוH5892 · irexcitementנִצְּת֖וּH3341 · ya.tsatto kindleמִבְּלִ֥יH1097 · be.liwithoutיֹשֵֽׁב׃H3427 · ya.shavto dwell
Cross-references
Jeremiah 4:7The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; [and] thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.Jeremiah 50:17Israel [is] a scattered sheep; the lions have driven [him] away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.Jeremiah 9:11And I will make Jerusalem heaps, [and] a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.Isaiah 5:29Their roaring [shall be] like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry [it] away safe, and none shall deliver [it].Isaiah 1:7Your 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.Ezekiel 5:14Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that [are] round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.Zephaniah 3:6I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.Jeremiah 44:22So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, [and] because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.Hosea 11:10They shall walk after the LORD: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west.Nahum 2:11Where [is] the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, [even] the old lion, walked, [and] the lion’s whelp, and none made [them] afraid?Amos 3:12Thus saith the LORD; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus [in] a couch.Jeremiah 5:6Wherefore 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: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, [and] their backslidings are increased.Job 4:10The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.Zephaniah 1:18Neither 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 shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.Amos 3:8The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?Hosea 13:7-8Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe [them]:Isaiah 6:11Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,Isaiah 24:1Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
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