English Standard Version
Jeremiah 51:38
38"They shall roar together like lions; they shall growl like lions' cubs.
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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)They shall roar together like lions, They shall growl like lions’ whelps.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Her people will roar together like strong lions. They will growl like lion cubs.
Context of Jeremiah 51:38
36Therefore thus says the Lord: "Behold, I will plead your cause and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea and make her fountain dry, 37and Babylon shall become a heap of ruins, the haunt of jackals, a horror and a hissing, without inhabitant. "They shall roar together like lions; they shall growl like lions' cubs. 39While they are inflamed I will prepare them a feast and make them drunk, that they may become merry, then sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, declares the Lord. 40I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and male 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 2:15The lions have roared against him; they have roared loudly. They have made his land a waste; his cities are in ruins, without inhabitant.
- Job 4:10The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions are broken.
- Psalms 34:10The young lions suffer want and hunger; but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.
- Psalms 58:6O God, break the teeth in their mouths; tear out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!
- Isaiah 35:9No lion shall be there, nor shall any ravenous beast come up on it; they shall not be found there, but the redeemed shall walk there.
- Nahum 2:11Where is the lions' den, the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and lioness went, where his cubs were, with none to disturb?
- Zechariah 11:3The sound of the wail of the shepherds, for their glory is ruined! The sound of the roar of the lions, for the thicket of the Jordan is ruined!
- Judges 16:20And she said, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" And he awoke from his sleep and said, "I will go out as at other times and shake myself free." But he did not know that the Lord had left 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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