They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions’ whelps.
They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions’ whelps.
Together as young lions they roar, They have shaken themselves as lions' whelps.
They shall roar together like young lions, growl as lions' whelps.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
Jeremiah — The weeping prophet of Judah's final generation — 627 BC call under Josiah to the 586 BC fall of Jerusalem and into Egyptian exile. Fifty-two chapters of lament, confrontation, and covenant promise, with the New Covenant glimpsed at the book's theological apex.
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They shall roar together like lions,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
The walk8
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Psalms 34:10Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
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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.
For the Gentiles strive after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
The young lions roar for their prey and seek their food from God.
He has performed mighty deeds with His arm; He has scattered those who are proud in the thoughts of their hearts.
The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.
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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.
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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…
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.”
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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.
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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…
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Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
The 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.
Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish with all its villages will ask, ‘Have you come to capture the plunder? Have you assembled your hordes to carry away loot, to make off with silver and gold, to take cattle and goods, to seize great spoil?’
The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.
Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
Listen 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.
No lion will be there, and no vicious beast will go up on it. Such will not be found there, but the redeemed will walk upon it.
Then she called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” When Samson awoke from his sleep, he thought, “I will escape as I did before and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the LORD had departed from him.
O God, shatter their teeth in their mouths; O LORD, tear out the fangs of the lions.
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?
Their roaring is like that of a lion; they roar like young lions. They growl and seize their prey; they carry it away from deliverance.
like heat in a dry land. You subdue the uproar of foreigners. As the shade of a cloud cools the heat, so the song of the ruthless is silenced.
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