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Jeremiah 51:38

They shall rore together like lions, and yell as the lyons whelpes.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions’ whelps.

In Context

37And Babel shall be as heapes, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.

39In their heate I will make them feastes, and I wil make them drunken, that they may reioyce, and sleepe a perpetual sleepe, and not wake, sayth the Lord.

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Cross References

Judges 16:20Then she said, The Philistims be vpon thee, Samson. And hee awoke out of his sleepe, and thought, I will go out now as at other times, and shake my selfe, but he knewe not that the Lord was departed from him.

Psalms 34:10The lyons doe lacke and suffer hunger, but they, which seeke the Lord, shall want nothing that is good.

Isaiah 35:9There shall be no lyon, nor noysome beastes shall ascend by it, neither shall they be found there, that the redeemed may walke.

Nahum 2:11Where is the dwelling of the lyons, and the pasture of the lyons whelpes? where the lyon, and the lionesse walked, and the lyons whelpe, and none made them afrayde.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 51:2-59

The Judgment of Babylon. ( b. c. 595.) 1 Thus saith the Lord ; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind; 2 And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about. 3 Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her… Read the whole commentary →

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