Jeremiah 51:38
in Jeremiah 51They will roar together like young lions; they will growl like lion cubs.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions’ whelps.
KJV
They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions’ whelps.
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This verse in Jeremiah 51
Commentary
3 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me
on Jeremiah 51:34-40
The voice that speaks here is read two ways by the bench, Zion herself personified describing her own violation, or the prophet lending the city his own words, and verse 35 settles it as Jerusalem's own complaint, my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say. The Lord answers as the go'el named two chapters earlier, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee, drying up her sea and her springs in direct reply to the violence done. Babylon's own feasts turn to her undoing, made drunken that they may sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, and the chapter's last image is lambs led to slaughter, the helplessness of the conquered handed to the conqueror in turn.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
): They shall roar together like lions, as men in their revels do, when the wine has got into their heads. They call it singing; but in scripture-language, and in the language of sober men, it is called yelling like lions' whelps. It is probable that they were drinking confusion to Cyrus and his army with loud huzzas.
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The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| יַחְדָּ֖ו | yachdav | together | H3162 → | 141 times |
| כַּכְּפִרִ֣ים | kakefirim | like <the> young lions | H3715 → | 32 times |
| יִשְׁאָ֑גוּ | yishagu | they roar | H7580 → | 20 times |
| נָעֲר֖וּ | naaru | they growl | H5286 → | |
| כְּגוֹרֵ֥י | kegorei | like cubs of | H1484 → | |
| אֲרָיֽוֹת׃ | ʾarayot | lions | H738 → | 80 times |
יַחְדָּ֖וtogether
yachdavH3162 →141 times
כַּכְּפִרִ֣יםlike <the> young lions
kakefirimH3715 →32 times
יִשְׁאָ֑גוּthey roar
yishaguH7580 →20 times
נָעֲר֖וּthey growl
naaruH5286 →
כְּגוֹרֵ֥יlike cubs of
kegoreiH1484 →
אֲרָיֽוֹת׃lions
ʾarayotH738 →80 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Psalms 34:10Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
it leads to
- Psalms 84:11
For the LORD God is a sun and a shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity.
- Matthew 6:32
For the Gentiles strive after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
- Psalms 104:21
The young lions roar for their prey and seek their food from God.
- Luke 1:51–53
He has performed mighty deeds with His arm; He has scattered those who are proud in the thoughts of their hearts.
- Job 4:10–11
The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.
- Psalms 84:11
Through
Jeremiah 2:15The young lions have roared at him; they have growled with a loud voice. They have laid waste his land; his cities lie in ruins, without inhabitant.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 4:7
A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to lay waste your land. Your cities will be reduced to ruins and…
- Jeremiah 50:17
Israel is a scattered flock, chased away by lions. The first to devour him was the king of Assyria; the last to crush his bones was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.”
- Jeremiah 4:7
Through
Zechariah 11:3Listen to the wailing of the shepherds, for their glory is in ruins. Listen to the roaring of the young lions, for the thickets of the Jordan are destroyed.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 50:44
Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan to the watered pasture. For in an instant I will chase Babylon from her land. Who is the chosen one…
- Jeremiah 50:44
About Jeremiah
This page draws on John Calvin, Commentary on Jeremiah and Lamentations; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.