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Jeremiah 2:15

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.

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ASV

The young lions have roared upon him, and yelled; and they have made his land waste: his cities are burned up, without inhabitant.

KJV

The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.

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12 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
עָלָיו֙'a.Lavon itH5921 →
יִשְׁאֲג֣וּyish.'a.Guthey have been roaringH7580 →
כְפִרִ֔יםkhe.fi.Rimyoung lionsH3715 →
נָתְנ֖וּna.te.Nuthey have givenH5414 →
קוֹלָ֑םko.Lamvoice theirH6963 →
וַיָּשִׁ֤יתוּvai.ya.Shi.tuand they have madeH7896 →
אַרְצוֹ֙'ar.Tzoland itsH776 →
לְשַׁמָּ֔הle.sha.Mahinto a wasteH8047 →
עָרָ֥יו'a.Ravcities itsH5892 →
נִצְּת֖וּni.tze.tahthey are burntH3341 →
מִבְּלִ֥יmi.be.Libecause notH1097 →
יֹשֵֽׁב׃yo.ShevinhabitantH3427 →

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Jeremiah 4:7A 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 lie uninhabited.1 Peter 5:8Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.Jeremiah 50:17Israel 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.”Isaiah 1:7Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolished by strangers.Isaiah 5:29Their roaring is like that of a lion; they roar like young lions. They growl and seize their prey; they carry it away from deliverance.Jeremiah 9:11“And I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”Jeremiah 51:38They will roar together like young lions; they will growl like lion cubs.Psalms 57:4My soul is among the lions; I lie down with ravenous beasts— with men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.Jeremiah 33:10This is what the LORD says: In this place you say is a wasteland without man or beast, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are deserted—inhabited by neither man nor beast—there will be heard againAmos 3:8The lion has roared—who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken—who will not prophesy?Jeremiah 34:22Behold, I am going to give the command, declares the LORD, and I will bring them back to this city. They will fight against it, capture it, and burn it down. And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”Job 4:10The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.Zephaniah 2:5Woe to the dwellers of the seacoast, O nation of the Cherethites! The word of the LORD is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines: “I will destroy you, and no one will be left.”Jeremiah 44:22So the LORD could no longer endure the evil deeds and detestable acts you committed, and your land became a desolation, a horror, and an object of cursing, without inhabitant, as it is this day.Nahum 2:11Where 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?Hosea 11:10They will walk after the LORD; He will roar like a lion. When He roars, His children will come trembling from the west.Judges 14:5Then Samson went down to Timnah with his father and mother and came to the vineyards of Timnah. Suddenly a young lion came roaring at him,Jeremiah 5:6Therefore a lion from the forest will strike them down, a wolf from the desert will ravage them. A leopard will lie in wait near their cities, and everyone who ventures out will be torn to pieces. For their rebellious acts are many, and their unfaithful deeds are numerous.

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About Jeremiah

The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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