Jeremiah 51:38
Good News Translation
The Babylonians all roar like lions and growl like lion cubs.

New Revised Standard Version
Like lions they shall roar together; they shall growl like lions’ whelps.

Contemporary English Version
The Babylonians roar and growl like young lions.

New American Bible
They roar like lions, growl like lion cubs.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They shall roar together like lions, they shall shake their manes like young lions.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They shall roar together like lions, they shall shake their manes like young lions.

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Jeremiah 2:15 The lions have roared upon him, and have made a noise, they have made his land a wilderness: his cities are burnt down, and there is none to dwell in them.

Job 4:10,11 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the teeth of the whelps of lions, are broken: . . .

Psalm 34:10 The rich have wanted, and have suffered hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not be deprived of any good.

Psalm 58:6 God shall break in pieces their teeth in their mouth: the Lord shall break the grinders of the lions.

Isaiah 35:9 No lion shall be there, nor shall any mischievous beast go up by it, nor be found there: but they shall walk there that shall be delivered.

Nahum 2:11-13 Where is now the dwelling of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, to which the lion went, to enter in thither, the young lion, and there was none to make them afraid? . . .

Zechariah 11:3 The voice of the howling of the shepherds, because their glory is laid waste: the voice of the roaring of the lions, because the pride of the Jordan is spoiled.

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Judges 16:20 And she said: The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And awaking from sleep, he said in his mind: I will go out as I did before, and shake myself, not knowing that the Lord was departed from him.

Context
Babylon's Punishment
37And Babylon shall be reduced to heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment and a hissing, because there is no inhabitant. 38They shall roar together like lions, they shall shake their manes like young lions.39In their heat I will set them drink: and I will make them drunk, that they may slumber, and sleep an everlasting sleep, and awake no more, saith the Lord.…
Cross References
2 Samuel 17:8
And again Chusai said: Thou knowest thy father, and the men that are with him, that they are very valiant, and bitter in their mind, as a bear raging in the wood when her whelps are taken away: and thy father is a warrior, and will not lodge with the people.

Isaiah 5:29
Their roaring like that of a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea they shall roar, and take hold of the prey, and they shall keep fast hold of it, and there shall be none to deliver it.

Jeremiah 2:15
The lions have roared upon him, and have made a noise, they have made his land a wilderness: his cities are burnt down, and there is none to dwell in them.

Jeremiah 51:37
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