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


In Context

35 May the violence done to our flesh be upon Babylon," say the inhabitants of Zion. "May our blood be on those who live in Babylonia," says Jerusalem.

36 Therefore, this is what the Lord says: "See, I will defend your cause and avenge you; I will dry up her sea and make her springs dry.

37 Babylon will be a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals, an object of horror and scorn, a place where no one lives.

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

39 But while they are aroused, I will set out a feast for them and make them drunk, so that they shout with laughter- then sleep forever and not awake," declares the Lord .

40 "I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and 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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

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

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

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

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.