Jeremiah 51:38

Jeremiah chapter 51 · verse 38 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

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.

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.