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Jeremiah 51:38
38Its people shout loudly, like lions that roar. They make a noise like baby lions that are hungry.
Jeremiah 51:38 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions’ whelps.
- New International Version (NIV)Her people all roar like young lions, they growl like lion cubs.
- English Standard Version (ESV)"They shall roar together like lions; they shall growl like lions' cubs.
- New King James Version (NKJV)They shall roar together like lions, They shall growl like lions’ whelps.
Context of Jeremiah 51:38
36So the Lord says, ‘I will help you to win. I will punish the people of Babylonia for what they have done to you. I will cause all their rivers and their springs to become dry. 37Babylon will become a heap of stones. Wild animals will live there. People will see that it is a disgusting place, and they will laugh at it. Nobody will live there. Its people shout loudly, like lions that roar. They make a noise like baby lions that are hungry. 39While they are feeling so hungry, I will prepare a feast for them. I will cause them to become drunk, and they will become helpless. They will sleep for ever and they will never wake up again.’ That is what the Lord says. 40‘I will take them down to the place of death. People will kill them as if they are lambs, sheep and goats.’
Read all of Jeremiah 51Jeremiah 51:38 word by word
יַחְדָּ֖ו כַּכְּפִרִ֣ים יִשְׁאָ֑גוּ נָעֲר֖וּ כְּגוֹרֵ֥י אֲרָיֽוֹת׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Jeremiah 51:38
- Jeremiah 2:15Their enemies have attacked them like lions. They have destroyed my people's land. They have destroyed your cities with fire. Nobody lives in them any more.
- Job 4:10Lions are strong animals that roar loudly. But if God breaks a lion's teeth, it cannot eat.
- Psalms 34:10Even young lions may not have food, so that they become hungry. But people who trust the Lord for help will receive every good thing that they need.
- Psalms 58:6God, break the teeth of my enemies! Yes, Lord, break into pieces the teeth of those lions!
- Isaiah 35:9No lions will be there. No dangerous wild animals will come onto it. They will not come near to it. It is the people that the Lord has rescued who will travel on that road.
- Nahum 2:11The home of the lions has gone. The place where they fed their young lions has gone. This was the place where whole families of lions once lived. It is here where their young lions were not afraid.
- Zechariah 11:3Listen to the shepherds! They are crying because enemies have destroyed their fields. Listen to the noise of the lions! They are roaring because the trees beside the Jordan River are no longer there.
- Judges 16:20Then Delilah shouted, ‘Samson, the Philistines are here!’ He woke up and he thought, ‘I will make myself free as I have always done before.’ But he did not realize that the Lord had gone away from him.
Commentaries on Jeremiah 51:38
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 38Yell - Or, growl.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 38-40The Lord announced he would use wine to change the lion, which once terrorized and destroyed nations (Jeremiah 5:6; 25:38; 49:19), into a lamb that is easy to control. Wine as a tool of wrath was usually symbolic (Jeremiah 25:15–29), but here it was real (see Daniel 5).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 38-3938-39. The capture of Babylon was effected on the night of a festival in honor of its idols. roar ... yell--The Babylonians were shouting in drunken revelry (compare Da 5:4).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Jeremiah 51
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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