New King James Version
Jeremiah 51:38
38They shall roar together like lions, They shall growl like lions’ whelps.
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 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 case and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea and make her springs dry. 37Babylon shall become a heap, A dwelling place for jackals, An astonishment and a hissing, Without an inhabitant. They shall roar together like lions, They shall growl like lions’ whelps. 39In their excitement I will prepare their feasts; I will make them drunk, That they may rejoice, And sleep a perpetual sleep And not awake,” says the Lord. 40“I will bring them down Like lambs to the slaughter, Like rams with 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 young lions roared at him, and growled; They made his land waste; His cities are burned, without inhabitant.
- Job 4:10The roaring of the lion, The voice of the fierce lion, And the teeth of the young lions are broken.
- Psalms 34:10The young lions lack and suffer hunger; But those who seek the Lord shall not lack any good thing.
- Psalms 58:6Break their teeth in their mouth, O God! Break out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!
- Isaiah 35:9No lion shall be there, Nor shall any ravenous beast go up on it; It shall not be found there. But the redeemed shall walk there,
- Nahum 2:11Where is the dwelling of the lions, And the feeding place of the young lions, Where the lion walked, the lioness and lion’s cub, And no one made them afraid?
- Zechariah 11:3There is the sound of wailing shepherds! For their glory is in ruins. There is the sound of roaring lions! For the pride of the Jordan is in ruins.
- Judges 16:20And she said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” So he awoke from his sleep, and said, “I will go out as before, at other times, and shake myself free!” But he did not know that the Lord had departed 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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