Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
The young lions have roared upon him, and yelled, and they have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.
New American Standard Bible
They have
And they have
His cities have been destroyed, without inhabitant.
King James Version
The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
Holman Bible
they have roared loudly.
They have laid waste his land.
His cities are in ruins, without inhabitants.
International Standard Version
Young lions roar at him, they cry out loudly. They have made his land into a wasteland, and his cities are destroyed so they are without inhabitants.
American Standard Version
The young lions have roared upon him, and yelled; and they have made his land waste: his cities are burned up, without inhabitant.
Amplified
“The young lions have roared at him,
They have made their voices heard and roared loudly.
And they have made his land a waste;
His cities have been destroyed and are burned ruins, without inhabitant.
Bible in Basic English
The young lions have made an outcry against him with a loud voice: they have made his land waste; his towns are burned up, with no one living in them.
Darby Translation
The young lions roared against him, they gave forth their voice, and they made his land desolate: his cities are burned, without inhabitant.
Julia Smith Translation
Upon him the young lions roared, they gave their voice, they will set his land for a desolation: his cities were burned from not being inhabited.
King James 2000
The young lions roared upon him, and growled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[The] young lions have roared against him, they have {raised} their voices. And they have made his land as horror; his cities are destroyed, {without} an inhabitant.
Modern King James verseion
The young lions roared against him; they gave their voice. And they made his land a waste; his cities are burned without inhabitant.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Why do they roar and cry then upon him, as a lion? They have made his land waste, his cities are so burnt up, that there is no man dwelling in them.
NET Bible
Like lions his enemies roar victoriously over him; they raise their voices in triumph. They have laid his land waste; his cities have been burned down and deserted.
New Heart English Bible
The young lions have roared at him, and yelled. They have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.
The Emphasized Bible
Against him, have been roaring wild lions, They have uttered their voice, - and have made his land a desolation, His cities, have been burned, so as to have no inhabitant.
Webster
The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
World English Bible
The young lions have roared at him, and yelled. They have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.
Youngs Literal Translation
Against him roar do young lions, They have given forth their voice, And make his land become a desolation, His cities have been burnt without inhabitant.
Interlinear
Nathan
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 2:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
Consequences Of Apostasy
14 Is Israel a servant? Is he a home-born [slave]? Why has he become a prey? 15 The young lions have roared upon him, and yelled, and they have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant. 16 The sons also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of thy head.
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 50:17
Israel is a hunted sheep, the lions have driven him away. First, the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.
Isaiah 1:7
Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Your land--strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
Isaiah 5:29
Their roaring shall be like a lioness. They shall roar like young lions. Yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and carry it away safe, and there shall be none to deliver.
Jeremiah 9:11
And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals. And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.
Judges 14:5
Then Samson went down, and his father and his mother, to Timnah, and came to the vineyards of Timnah. And, behold, a young lion roared against him.
Job 4:10
The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
Psalm 57:4
My soul is among lions. I lay among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Isaiah 5:9
In my ears [says] LORD of hosts, of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
Isaiah 6:11
Then I said, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until cities be waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land become utterly waste,
Isaiah 24:1
Behold, LORD makes the earth empty, and makes it waste, and turns it upside down, and scatters abroad the inhabitants of it.
Jeremiah 5:6
Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them; a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them; a leopard shall watch against their cities. Everyone who goes out from there shall be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are m
Jeremiah 25:30
Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say to them, LORD will roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation. He will mightily roar against his fold. He will give a shout, as those who tread [gra
Jeremiah 26:9
Why have thou prophesied in the name of LORD, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without inhabitant? And all the people were gathered to Jeremiah in the house of LORD.
Jeremiah 33:10
Thus says LORD: Yet again there shall be heard in this place--of which ye say, It is waste, without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man and without inh
Jeremiah 34:22
Behold, I will command, says LORD, and cause them to return to this city. And they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire. And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.
Jeremiah 44:22
So that LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed. Therefore your land has become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as i
Ezekiel 5:14
Moreover I will make thee a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all who pass by.
Hosea 5:14
For I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear and go away, I will carry off, and there shall be none to deliver.
Hosea 11:10
They shall walk after LORD, who will roar like a lion. For he will roar, and the sons shall come trembling from the west.
Hosea 13:7-8
Therefore I am to them as a lion. As a leopard I will watch by the way.
Amos 3:4
Will a lion roar in the forest, when he has no prey? Will a young lion cry out of his den, if he has taken nothing?
Amos 3:8
The lion has roared, who will not fear? Lord LORD has spoken, who can but prophesy?
Amos 3:12
Thus says LORD: As the shepherd rescues out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear, so shall the sons of Israel be rescued who sit in Samaria in the corner of a couch, and on the silken cushions of a bed.
Nahum 2:11
Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding-place of the young lions, where the lion [and] the lioness walked, the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid?
Zephaniah 1:18
Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of LORD's wrath, but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy. For he will make an end, yea, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in
Zephaniah 2:5
Woe to the inhabitants of the seacoast, the nation of the Cherethites! The word of LORD is against you, O Canaan, the land of the Philistines. I will destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.
Zephaniah 3:6
I have cut off nations. Their battlements are desolate. I have made their streets waste, so that none passes by. Their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant.