Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
They will be crying out together like lions, their voices will be like the voices of young lions.
New American Standard Bible
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 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.
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
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 51:38
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Message Concerning Babylon
37 And Babylon will become a mass of broken walls, a hole for jackals, a cause of wonder and surprise, without a living man in it. 38 They will be crying out together like lions, their voices will be like the voices of young lions. 39 When they are heated, I will make a feast for them, and overcome them with wine, so that they may become unconscious, sleeping an eternal sleep without awaking, says the Lord.
Cross References
Jeremiah 2:15
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.
Judges 16:20
Then she said, The Philistines are on you, Samson. And awaking from his sleep, he said, I will go out as at other times, shaking myself free. But he was not conscious that the Lord had gone from him.
Job 4:10-11
Though the noise of the lion and the sounding of his voice, may be loud, the teeth of the young lions are broken.
Psalm 34:10
The young lions are in need and have no food; but those who are looking to the Lord will have every good thing.
Psalm 58:6
O God, let their teeth be broken in their mouths; let the great teeth of the young lions be pulled out, O Lord.
Isaiah 35:9
No lion will be there, or any cruel beast; they will not be seen there; but those for whom the Lord has given a price,
Nahum 2:11-13
Where is the lions' hole, the place where the young lions got their food, where the lion and the she-lion were walking with their young, without cause for fear?
Zechariah 11:3
The sound of the crying of the keepers of the flock! for their glory is made waste: the sound of the loud crying of the young lions! for the pride of Jordan is made waste.