KJV King James Version
They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions’ whelps.
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Jeremiah 51:38
They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions’ whelps.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
They will roar together like young lions; they will growl like lion cubs.
WEB World English Bible
They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions’ cubs.
ASV American Standard Version
They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions’ whelps.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Together as young lions they roar, They have shaken themselves as lions’ whelps.
Surrounding context — Jeremiah 51
35 The violence done to me and to my flesh [be] upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
36 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.
37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
38 They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions’ whelps.
39 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.
40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
41 How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
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Jeremiah 2:15The young lions roared upon him, [and] yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.Psalm 34:10The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good [thing].Psalm 58:6Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.Zechariah 11:3[There is] a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.Isaiah 35:9No lion shall be there, nor [any] ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk [there]:Judges 16:20And she said, The Philistines [be] upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from him.Nahum 2:11-13Where [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?Job 4:10-11The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
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