Jeremiah 2:15
15 aThe lions have roared against him;they have roared loudly.
They have made his land a waste;
his cities are in ruins, bwithout inhabitant.
Jeremiah 4:7
7 cA lion has gone up from his thicket,a destroyer of nations has set out;
he has gone out from his place
to make your land a waste;
your cities will be ruins
dwithout inhabitant.
Jeremiah 25:38
38Like a lion ehe has left his lair,for their land has become a waste
because of fthe sword of the oppressor,
gand because of his fierce anger.”
Jeremiah 49:19
19 hBehold, ilike a lion coming up from jthe jungle of the Jordan against a perennial pasture, I will suddenly make him ▼▼Septuagint, Syriac them
run away from her. And I will appoint over her whomever I choose. lFor who is like me? mWho will summon me? nWhat shepherd can stand before me? Ezekiel 14:16-21
16even if these three men were in it, oas I live, declares the Lord God, they would deliver neither sons nor daughters. They alone would be delivered, but pthe land would be desolate.17“Or qif I bring a sword upon that land and say, Let a sword pass through the land, rand I cut off from it man and beast, 18 sthough these three men were in it, as I live, declares the Lord God, they would deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they alone would be delivered.
19“Or tif I send a pestilence into that land and pour out my wrath upon it with blood, to cut off from it man and beast, 20even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, declares the Lord God, they would deliver neither son nor daughter. They would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness.
21“For thus says the Lord God: How much more uwhen I send upon Jerusalem my four disastrous acts of judgment, vsword, wfamine, xwild beasts, and ypestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!
Daniel 7:4
4The first was like a lion and had eagles’ wings. Then as I looked its wings were plucked off, and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand on two feet like a man, and the mind of a man was given to it.Hosea 5:14
14For I will be zlike a lion to aaEphraim,and like a young lion to the house of abJudah.
acI, even I, will tear and go away;
I will carry off, and no one shall rescue.
Hosea 13:7-8
7So adI am to them like a lion;aelike a leopard I will lurk beside the way.
8I will fall upon them aflike a bear robbed of her cubs;
I will tear open their breast,
and there I will devour them like a lion,
agas a wild beast would rip them open.
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