Jeremiah 51:38
They will roar together like young lions; they will growl like lion cubs.
BSB
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.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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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…