Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“They will roar together like young lions,
They will growl like lions’ cubs.

King James Version

They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps.

Holman Bible

They will roar together like young lions;
they will growl like lion cubs.

International Standard Version

They'll roar together like young lions; they'll growl like lion cubs.

A Conservative Version

They shall roar together like young lions. They shall growl as lions' whelps.

American Standard Version

They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions whelps.

Amplified


“They (the Chaldean lords) will be roaring together [before their sudden capture] like young lions [roaring over their prey],
They (the princes) will be growling like lions’ cubs.

Bible in Basic English

They will be crying out together like lions, their voices will be like the voices of young lions.

Darby Translation

They shall roar together like young lions, growl as lions' whelps.

Julia Smith Translation

Together as lions shall they roar: they shook themselves as the lion's whelps.

King James 2000

They shall roar together like lions: they shall growl as lions' whelps.

Lexham Expanded Bible

They will roar together like the young lions, they will growl like the cubs of lions.

Modern King James verseion

They shall roar together like lions; they shall growl like lions' cubs.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

They shall roar together like lions, and as the young lions when they be angry, so shall they bend themselves.

NET Bible

The Babylonians are all like lions roaring for prey. They are like lion cubs growling for something to eat.

New Heart English Bible

They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions' cubs.

The Emphasized Bible

Together, like wild lions, shall they roar, - They have growled like lions' whelps.

Webster

They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps.

World English Bible

They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions' cubs.

Youngs Literal Translation

Together as young lions they roar, They have shaken themselves as lions' whelps.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
שׁאג 
Sha'ag 
Usage: 20

יחד 
Yachad 
Usage: 141

כּפיר 
K@phiyr 
Usage: 32

נער 
Na`ar 
Usage: 2

as lions'
אריה ארי 
'ariy 
Usage: 80

References

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Fausets

Hastings

Smith

Watsons

Context Readings

A Message Concerning Babylon

37 Babylon will become a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals,
An object of horror and hissing, without inhabitants.
38 “They will roar together like young lions,
They will growl like lions’ cubs.
39 “When they become heated up, I will serve them their banquet
And make them drunk, that they may become jubilant
And may sleep a perpetual sleep
And not wake up,” declares the Lord.



Cross References

Jeremiah 2:15

“The young lions have roared at him,
They have roared loudly.
And they have made his land a waste;
His cities have been destroyed, without inhabitant.

Judges 16:20

She said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And he awoke from his sleep and said, “I will go out as at other times and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the Lord had departed from him.

Job 4:10-11

“The roaring of the lion and the voice of the fierce lion,
And the teeth of the young lions are broken.

Psalm 34:10

The young lions do lack and suffer hunger;
But they who seek the Lord shall not be in want of any good thing.

Psalm 58:6

O God, shatter their teeth in their mouth;
Break out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord.

Isaiah 35:9

No lion will be there,
Nor will any vicious beast go up on it;
These will not be found there.
But the redeemed will walk there,

Nahum 2:11-13

Where is the den of the lions
And the feeding place of the young lions,
Where the lion, lioness and lion’s cub prowled,
With nothing to disturb them?

Zechariah 11:3

There is a sound of the shepherds’ wail,
For their glory is ruined;
There is a sound of the young lions’ roar,
For the pride of the Jordan is ruined.

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