Jeremiah 51:38

What does Jeremiah 51:38 mean?

A plain-English look at Jeremiah 51:38 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions’ whelps.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions’ whelps.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

They will be crying out together like lions, their voices will be like the voices of young lions.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

Together as young lions they roar, They have shaken themselves as lions' whelps.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

They shall roar together like lions, they shall shake their manes like young lions.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

They shall roar together like young lions, growl as lions' whelps.

Context

v.37And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

v.38This passage

v.39When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith Jehovah.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Psalms 34:10

    The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger; But they that seek Jehovah shall not want any good thing.

  • Zechariah 11:3

    A voice of the wailing of the shepherds! for their glory is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions! for the pride of the Jordan is laid waste.

  • Isaiah 35:9

    No lion shall be there, nor shall any ravenous beast go up thereon; they shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there:

  • Nahum 2:11

    Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding-place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, the lion’s whelp, and none made them afraid?

  • Jeremiah 2:15

    The young lions have roared upon him, and yelled; and they have made his land waste: his cities are burned up, without inhabitant.

  • Job 4:10

    The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, And the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

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