38They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions whelps.


In Context

35 The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and, My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.

36 Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.

37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

38 They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions whelps.

39 When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith Jehovah.

40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.

Jeremiah 51:38 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

51:38They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions’ whelps.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

51:38Her people all roar like young lions, they growl like lion cubs.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

51:38They shall roar together like lions, they shall shake their manes like young lions.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

51:38They shall roar together like young lions, growl as lions' whelps.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

51:38They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions' whelps.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

51:38They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

51:38They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions' cubs.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

51:38Together as young lions they roar, They have shaken themselves as lions' whelps.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

51:38They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps.