Isaiah 5:29

A roar, hath he, like a lioness,—He will roar like wild lions—And will growl, and lay hold on prey, and carry into safety, and there be none to deliver.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 arrows, are sharpened, and all his bows, bent,—The hoofs of his horses, like flint, are accounted, And, his wheels, [are] like a storm-wind:

30Yea he will growl at him in that day, like the growling of the sea,—Though he look hard for the land, lo! the darkness of distress, Yea the light, hath grown dark in its clouds!

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Cross References

Genesis 49:9A lion’s whelp, is Judah, From the prey, my son hast thou come up! He hath stooped—hath crouched As a lion—or as a lioness, Who shall rouse him?

Psalms 50:22Understand this, I pray you, ye forgetters of GOD, Lest I tear in pieces, and there be none to deliver:—

Isaiah 31:4For Thus, hath Yahweh said unto me—Like as a lion or a young lion growleth over his prey. Who—though there be called out against him a multitude of shepherds—Will not at their voice, be dismayed, Nor, at their noise, be daunted, So, will Yahweh of hosts come down, to make war over Mount Zion, and over the hill thereof.

Isaiah 49:24Shall prey, be taken from a mighty one? Or the captive of one in the right, be delivered?

Jeremiah 4:7There hath come up a lion out of his thicket, Yea, a destroyer of nations—hath set forward, hath come forth out of his place,—To make thy land a desolation, Thy cities, shall fall in ruins, so as to have no inhabitant.

Jeremiah 50:17A sheep all alone, is Israel Lions, have driven him away,—At the first, the king of Assyria devoured him, And here, at the last, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones!

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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