Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

The young lions go thundering after their food; searching for their meat from God.

New American Standard Bible

The young lions roar after their prey
And seek their food from God.

King James Version

The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.

Holman Bible

The young lions roar for their prey
and seek their food from God.

International Standard Version

Young lions roar for prey, seeking their food from God.

A Conservative Version

The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God.

American Standard Version

The young lions roar after their prey, And seek their food from God.

Amplified


The young lions roar after their prey
And seek their food from God.

Darby Translation

The young lions roar after the prey, and to seek their food from God.

Julia Smith Translation

The young lions roaring for prey, and to seek from God their food.

King James 2000

The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God.

Lexham Expanded Bible

The young lions [are] roaring for the prey and seeking their food from God.

Modern King James verseion

The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The lions, roaring after their prey, do seek their meat from God.

NET Bible

The lions roar for prey, seeking their food from God.

New Heart English Bible

The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God.

The Emphasized Bible

The young lions, roaring for prey, And seeking, from GOD, their food.

Webster

The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God.

World English Bible

The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God.

Youngs Literal Translation

The young lions are roaring for prey, And to seek from God their food.

Interlinear

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

שׁאג 
Sha'ag 
Usage: 20

טרף 
Tereph 
Usage: 22

and seek
בּקשׁ 
Baqash 
Usage: 225

אכל 
'okel 
Usage: 44

References

Easton

Fausets

Context Readings

Praise To Yahweh For His Creation And Providence

20 When you make it dark, it is night, when all the beasts of the woods come quietly out of their secret places. 21 The young lions go thundering after their food; searching for their meat from God. 22 The sun comes up, and they come together, and go back to their secret places to take their rest.


Cross References

Job 38:39

Do you go after food for the she-lion, or get meat so that the young lions may have enough,

Joel 1:20

The beasts of the field are turning to you with desire: for the water-streams are dry and fire has put an end to the grass-lands of the waste.

Job 38:41

Who gives in the evening the meat he is searching for, when his young ones are crying to God; when the young lions with loud noise go wandering after their food?

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 147:9

He gives food to every beast, and to the young ravens in answer to their cry.

Isaiah 31:4

For the Lord has said to me, As a lion, or a young lion, makes an angry noise over his food, and if a band of herdsmen come out against him, he will not be in fear of their voices, or give up his food for their noise: so the Lord of armies will come down to make war against Mount Zion and its hill.

Ezekiel 19:2-14

What was your mother? Like a she-lion among lions, stretched out among the young lions she gave food to her little ones.

Joel 1:18

What sounds of pain come from the beasts! the herds of cattle are at a loss because there is no grass for them; even the flocks of sheep are no longer to be seen.

Joel 2:22

Have no fear, you beasts of the field, for the grass-lands of the waste are becoming green, for the trees are producing fruit, the fig-tree and the vine give out their strength.

Amos 3:4

Will a lion give his loud cry in the woodland when no food is there? will the voice of the young lion be sounding from his hole if he has taken nothing?

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