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Jeremiah 51:38

Together, like wild lions, shall they roar,—They have growled like lions’ whelps.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

In Context

37Thus shall Babylon become—Heaps A habitation of jackals An astonishment, and A hissing, Without inhabitant.

39When they are heated, I will spread their banquets, And let them drink that they may become uproarious, So shall they sleep an age-abiding sleep and not wake,—Declareth Yahweh.

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Cross References

Judges 16:20And she said—The Philistines, are upon thee, Samson! And he awoke out of his sleep, and said—I will go out now, as time after time, and shake myself free: he, not knowing, that, Yahweh, had departed from him.

Psalms 34:10Young lions, have come short, and suffered hunger, but, they who seek Yahweh, shall not lack any good thing.

Isaiah 35:9There shall be, there, no lion, Nor shall ravenous beast, go up thereon, It shall not be found, there,—Thus, shall travel the redeemed;

Nahum 2:11Where is the lair of the lions? Yea the very feeding-place of the young lions,—where walked the lion, the lioness, the lion’s whelp, with none to make them afraid?

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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