KJV King James Version
Where [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?
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Nahum 2:11
Where [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?
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Where is the lions’ lair or the feeding ground of the young lions, where the lion and lioness prowled with their cubs, with nothing to frighten them away?
WEB World English Bible
Where 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?
ASV American Standard Version
Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding-place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, the lion’s whelp, and none made them afraid?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Where is the habitation of lionesses? And a feeding-place it is for young lions Where walked hath a lion, an old lion, A lion’s whelp, and there is none troubling.
Surrounding context — Nahum 2
8 But Nineveh [is] of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, [shall they cry]; but none shall look back.
9 Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for [there is] none end of the store [and] glory out of all the pleasant furniture.
10 She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain [is] in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.
11 Where [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?
12 The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.
13 Behold, I [am] against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.
Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
אַיֵּה֙H346 · ay.yehwhere?מְע֣וֹןH4583 · ma.onhabitationאֲרָי֔וֹתH738 · a.rilionוּמִרְעֶ֥הH4829 · mir.ehpastureה֖וּאH1931 · huhe/she/itלַכְּפִרִ֑יםH3715 · ke.phirlionאֲשֶׁ֣רH834 · a.sherwhichהָלַךְ֩H1980 · ha.lakhto go: wentאַרְיֵ֨הH738 · a.rilionלָבִ֥יאH3833 · le.vilionשָׁ֛םH8033 · shamthereגּ֥וּרH1482 · gurwhelpאַרְיֵ֖הH738 · a.rilionוְאֵ֥יןH369 · a.yinnothingמַחֲרִֽיד׃H2729 · cha.radto tremble
Cross-references
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].Jeremiah 2:15The young lions roared upon him, [and] yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.Ezekiel 19:2-8And say, What [is] thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.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 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 50:44Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly run away from her: and who [is] a chosen [man, that] I may appoint over her? for who [is] like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who [is] that shepherd that will stand before me?Nahum 3:1Woe to the bloody city! it [is] all full of lies [and] robbery; the prey departeth not;Isaiah 31:4For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, [he] will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.Zephaniah 3:3Her princes within her [are] roaring lions; her judges [are] evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.Job 4:10-11The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.Genesis 49:9Judah [is] a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
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