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Jeremiah 4:7
A lion has gone up from his thicket; a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to make your land a waste. Your cities will be reduced to uninhabited ruins.
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Jeremiah 50:17
Israel is a stray lamb, chased by lions. The first who devoured him was the king of Assyria; the last who crushed his bones was King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.
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Isaiah 1:7
Your land is desolate, your cities burned down; foreigners devour your fields right in front of you— a desolation, like a place demolished by foreigners.
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Isaiah 5:29
Their roaring is like a lion’s; they roar like young lions; they growl and seize their prey and carry it off, and no one can rescue it.
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Jeremiah 9:11
I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a jackals’ den. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, an uninhabited place.
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Jeremiah 26:9
How dare you prophesy in the name of the LORD,‘ This temple will become like Shiloh and this city will become an uninhabited ruin’!” Then all the people crowded around Jeremiah at the LORD’s temple.
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Ezekiel 5:14
“ I will make you a ruin and a disgrace among the nations around you, in the sight of everyone who passes by.
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Nahum 2:11
Where is the lions’ lair, or the feeding ground of the young lions, where the lion and lioness prowled, and the lion’s cub, with nothing to frighten them away?
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Zephaniah 2:5
Woe, inhabitants of the seacoast, nation of the Cherethites! The word of the LORD is against you, Canaan, land of the Philistines: I will destroy you until there is no one left.
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Isaiah 24:1
Look, the LORD is stripping the earth bare and making it desolate. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants:
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Jeremiah 44:22
The LORD can no longer bear your evil deeds and the detestable acts you have committed, so your land has become a waste, a desolation, and an example for cursing, without inhabitant, as you see today.
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Amos 3:4
Does a lion roar in the forest when it has no prey? Does a young lion growl from its lair unless it has captured something?
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Hosea 5:14
For I am like a lion to Ephraim and like a young lion to the house of Judah. Yes, I will tear them to pieces and depart. I will carry them off, and no one can rescue them.
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Amos 3:12
The LORD says: As the shepherd snatches two legs or a piece of an ear from the lion’s mouth, so the Israelites who live in Samaria will be rescued with only the corner of a bed or the cushion of a couch.
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Zephaniah 3:6
I have cut off nations; their corner towers are destroyed. I have laid waste their streets, with no one to pass through. Their cities lie devastated, without a person, without an inhabitant.
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Isaiah 5:9
I heard the LORD of Armies say: Indeed, many houses will become desolate, grand and lovely ones without inhabitants.
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Isaiah 6:11
Then I said,“ Until when, Lord?” And he replied: Until cities lie in ruins without inhabitants, houses are without people, the land is ruined and desolate,
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Hosea 13:7-8
So I will be like a lion to them; I will lurk like a leopard on the path.I will attack them like a bear robbed of her cubs and tear open the rib cage over their hearts. I will devour them there like a lioness, like a wild beast that would rip them open.
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Zephaniah 1:18
Their silver and their gold will be unable to rescue them on the day of the LORD’s wrath. The whole earth will be consumed by the fire of his jealousy, for he will make a complete, yes, a horrifying end of all the inhabitants of the earth.
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Amos 3:8
A lion has roared; who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken; who will not prophesy?
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Jeremiah 34:22
I am about to give the command— this is the LORD’s declaration— and I will bring them back to this city. They will fight against it, capture it, and burn it. I will make Judah’s cities a desolation, without inhabitant.”
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Judges 14:5
Samson went down to Timnah with his father and mother and came to the vineyards of Timnah. Suddenly a young lion came roaring at him,
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Jeremiah 25:30
“ As for you, you are to prophesy all these things to them, and say to them: The LORD roars from on high; he makes his voice heard from his holy dwelling. He roars loudly over his grazing land; he calls out with a shout, like those who tread grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.
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Job 4:10
The lion may roar and the fierce lion growl, but the teeth of young lions are broken.
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Hosea 11:10
They will follow the LORD; he will roar like a lion. When he roars, his children will come trembling from the west.
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Psalms 57:4
I am surrounded by lions; I lie down among devouring lions— people whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.
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Jeremiah 5:6
Therefore, a lion from the forest will strike them down. A wolf from arid plains will ravage them. A leopard stalks their cities. Anyone who leaves them will be torn to pieces because their rebellious acts are many, their unfaithful deeds numerous.
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Jeremiah 33:10
“ This is what the LORD says: In this place, which you say is a ruin, without people or animals— that is, in Judah’s cities and Jerusalem’s streets that are a desolation without people, without inhabitants, and without animals— there will be heard again