Tree of Life Version
Jeremiah 51:38
38They roar together like young lions, 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.
- 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
36Therefore thus says Adonai: “Yes, I will uphold your cause and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry. 37Babylon will become heaps, a dwelling for jackals, a horror and a hissing, uninhabited. They roar together like young lions, growl like lions cubs. 39When they become hot, I will set out a banquet for them and will make them so drunk that they become merry— and then sleep a perpetual sleep and never awake.” It is a declaration of Adonai. 40“I will drag them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-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 2:15Young lions have roared at him they have roared loudly. They made his land a waste— his cities are in ruins and uninhabited.
- Job 4:10The lion may roar and the cub growl, but the teeth of young lions are broken.
- Psalms 34:10Fear Adonai, His kedoshim, For those who fear Him lack nothing.
- Psalms 58:6not hearing the voice of charmers, or a cunning spell binder.
- Isaiah 35:9No lion will be there. No ravenous beast will go up on it. They will not be found there. But the redeemed will walk there.
- Nahum 2:11Emptiness, desolation, waste! Heart melting, knees buckling, anguish in all the loins, all their faces grown pale!
- Zechariah 11:3Listen to the wailing of the shepherds, for their glory is destroyed! Listen to the roaring of young lions, for Jordan’s thickets are ruined!
- Judges 16:20Then she said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” When he awoke from his sleep, he thought, “I’ll go out as at other times, and shake myself off.” He did not comprehend that Adonai 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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