Parallel Verses

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.

New American Standard Bible

“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.

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

The young lions have roared at him;
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.

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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
כּפיר 
K@phiyr 
Usage: 32

שׁאג 
Sha'ag 
Usage: 20

upon him, and yelled
נתן 
Nathan 
Usage: 2011

and they made
שׁית 
Shiyth 
Usage: 83

ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

שׁמּה 
Shammah 
Usage: 39

עיר ער עיר 
`iyr 
Usage: 1094

יצת 
Yatsath 
Usage: 29

References

Easton

Hastings

Sin

Context Readings

Consequences Of Apostasy

14 A servant is Israel? Is he a child of the house? Wherefore hath he been for a prey? 15 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. 16 Also sons of Noph and Tahapanes Consume thee -- the crown of the head!

Cross References

Jeremiah 4:7

Gone up hath a lion from his thicket, And a destroyer of nations hath journeyed, He hath come forth from his place To make thy land become a desolation, Thy cities are laid waste, without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 50:17

A scattered sheep is Israel, lions have driven away, At first, devour him did the king of Asshur, And now, at last, broken his bone Hath Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.

Isaiah 1:7

Your land is a desolation, your cities burnt with fire, Your ground, before you strangers are consuming it, And a desolation as overthrown by strangers!

Isaiah 5:29

Its roaring is like a lioness, It roareth like young lions, And it howleth, and seizeth prey, And carrieth away safely, and there is none delivering.

Jeremiah 9:11

And I make Jerusalem become heaps, A habitation of dragons, And the cities of Judah I make a desolation, Without inhabitant.

Judges 14:5

And Samson goeth down -- also his father and his mother, to Timnath, and they come unto the vineyards of Timnath, and lo, a lion's whelp roareth at meeting him,

Job 4:10

The roaring of a lion, And the voice of a fierce lion, And teeth of young lions have been broken.

Psalm 57:4

My soul is in the midst of lions, I lie down among flames -- sons of men, Their teeth are a spear and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.

Isaiah 5:9

By the weapons of Jehovah of Hosts Do not many houses a desolation become? Great and good without inhabitant!

Isaiah 6:11

And I say, 'Till when, O Lord?' And He saith, 'Surely till cities have been wasted without inhabitant, And houses without man, And the ground be wasted -- a desolation,

Isaiah 24:1

Lo, Jehovah is emptying the land, And is making it waste, And hath overturned it on its face, And hath scattered its inhabitants.

Jeremiah 5:6

Therefore smitten them hath a lion out of the forest, A wolf of the deserts doth spoil them, A leopard is watching over their cities, Every one who is going out of them is torn, For many have been their transgressions, Mighty have been their backslidings.

Jeremiah 25:30

And thou, thou dost prophesy unto them all these words, and hast said unto them: Jehovah from the high place doth roar, And from His holy habitation giveth forth His voice, He surely roareth for His habitation, A shout as of treaders down, God answereth all the inhabitants of the land,

Jeremiah 26:9

Wherefore hast thou prophesied in the name of Jehovah, saying, 'As Shiloh this house shall be, and this city is wasted, without inhabitant?' and all the people are assembled unto Jeremiah in the house of Jehovah.

Jeremiah 33:10

Thus said Jehovah: Again heard in this place of which ye are saying, Waste it is, without man and without beast, In cities of Judah, and in streets of Jerusalem, That are desolated, without man, And without inhabitant, and without beast,

Jeremiah 34:22

Lo, I am commanding -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- and have brought them back unto this city, and they have fought against it, and captured it, and burned it with fire, and the cities of Judah I do make a desolation -- without inhabitant.'

Jeremiah 44:22

And Jehovah is not able any more to accept you, because of the evil of your doings, because of the abominations that ye have done, and your land is for a waste, and for an astonishment, and for a reviling, without inhabitant, as at this day.

Ezekiel 5:14

And I give thee for a waste, And for a reproach among nations that are round about thee, Before the eyes of every passer by.

Hosea 5:14

For I am as a lion to Ephraim, And as a young lion to the house of Judah, I -- I tear and go, I bear away, and there is no deliverer.

Hosea 11:10

After Jehovah they go -- as a lion He roareth, When He doth roar, then tremble do the sons from the west.

Hosea 13:7-8

And I am to them as a lion, As a leopard by the way I look out.

Amos 3:4

Roar doth a lion in a forest and prey he hath none? Give out doth a young lion his voice from his habitation, If he hath not caught?

Amos 3:8

A lion hath roared -- who doth not fear? The Lord Jehovah hath spoken -- who doth not prophesy?

Amos 3:12

Thus said Jehovah: As the shepherd delivereth from the lion's mouth Two legs, or a piece of an ear, So delivered are the sons of Israel, Who are sitting in Samaria on the corner of a bed, And in Damascus on that of a couch.

Nahum 2:11

Where is the habitation of lionesses? And a feeding-place it is for young lions Where walked hath a lion, an old lion, A lion's whelp, and there is none troubling.

Zephaniah 1:18

Even their silver, even their gold, Is not able to deliver them in a day of the wrath of Jehovah, And in the fire of His jealousy consumed is the whole land, For only a hastened end doth He make Of all the inhabitants of the land!

Zephaniah 2:5

Ho! O inhabitants of the sea-coast, Nation of the Cherethites, A word of Jehovah is against you, Canaan, land of the Philistines, And I have destroyed thee without an inhabitant.

Zephaniah 3:6

I have cut off nations, Desolated have been their chief ones, I have laid waste their out-places without any passing by, Destroyed have been their cities, Without man, without inhabitant.

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