Isaiah 5:29

Their roaring shall be like a lion, 1 they shall roar like young lions; 1 yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the teref, 1 and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.

In Context

28Whose khitzim (arrows) are sharp, 1 and all their bows bent, 1 the hoofs of their susim shall seem like flint, 1 and their wheels like a whirlwind: 1

30And in Yom Hahu they shall roar against them 1 like the roaring of the sea; 1 and if one look unto ha'aretz, 1 hinei, choshech and tzar (distress), 1 and the ohr groweth dark with clouds.

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Cross References

Genesis 49:9Yehudah is the cub of an aryeh (lion); 1 from the prey, beni (my son), thou hast gone up; 1 he stooped down, he couched like an aryeh, 1 and like a lioness; who shall rouse him? 1

Psalms 50:22Now consider this, ye that forget Elo'ah (G-d), 1 lest I tear you to pieces, and there be none to rescue. 1

Isaiah 31:4For thus saith Hashem unto me, 1 Just as the aryeh (lion) and the young lion roars over his prey, 1 when a multitude of ro'im (shepherds) is called forth against him, 1 he will not be afraid of their clamor, 1 nor disturb himself because of the noise of them; 1 so shall Hashem Tzva'os come down 1 to fight for Mount Tziyon, 1 and for the givah (hill) thereof. 1

Isaiah 49:24Shall the malko'ach (plunder, prey, booty) be taken from the gibbor; 1 shall the shevi tzaddik be delivered? 1

Jeremiah 4:7The aryeh (lion) is come up from his thicket, 1 and the Mashkhit Goyim (Destroyer of the Nations), + 4:7 i.e., Babylon is on his way, 1 he is gone forth from his place to make thy eretz desolate; 1 and thy cities shall be made to lie in ruins, without an inhabitant. 1

Jeremiah 50:17Yisroel is a seh pezurah (scattered sheep); the aryot (lions) have driven him away; first Melech Ashur (King of Assyria) hath devoured him; and last this Nevukhadretzar Melech Bavel hath broken his atzmot.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 5:19-30

Denunciations against Sin. ( b. c. 758.) 18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: 19 That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it! 20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! 21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in… Read the whole commentary →

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