Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.

Perisheth

Bible References

Old lion

Job 38:39
“Can you hunt the prey for the lion,
Or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,
Genesis 49:9
“Judah is a lion’s whelp;
From the prey, my son, you have gone up.
He couches, he lies down as a lion,
And as a lion, who dares rouse him up?
Numbers 23:24
Behold, a people rises like a lioness,
And as a lion it lifts itself;
It will not lie down until it devours the prey,
And drinks the blood of the slain.”
Numbers 24:9
He couches, he lies down as a lion,
And as a lion, who dares rouse him?
Blessed is everyone who blesses you,
And cursed is everyone who curses you.”
Psalm 7:2
Or he will tear my soul like a lion,
Dragging me away, while there is none to deliver.
Jeremiah 4:7
“A lion has gone up from his thicket,
And a destroyer of nations has set out;
He has gone out from his place
To make your land a waste.
Your cities will be ruins
Without inhabitant.
Hosea 11:10
They will walk after the Lord,
He will roar like a lion;
Indeed He will roar
And His sons will come trembling from the west.
2 Timothy 4:17
But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, so that through me the proclamation might be fully accomplished, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was rescued out of the lion’s mouth.

Perisheth

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.

The stout

Job 1:19
and behold, a great wind came from across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people and they died, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
Job 8:3
“Does God pervert justice?
Or does the Almighty pervert what is right?
Job 27:14
“Though his sons are many, they are destined for the sword;
And his descendants will not be satisfied with bread.