Ezekiel 19:7

WEB

⁷He knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities. The land was desolate with its fullness, because of the noise of his roaring.

KJV

⁷And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.

BSB

⁷He broke down their strongholds ^[+] and devastated their cities. The land and everything in it shuddered at the sound of his roaring.

FBV

⁷He tore down their fortresses^[+] and destroyed their towns. All the people living in the country were appalled when they heard him roaring.

Extra References

Ezekiel 30:12

¹²I will make the rivers dry, and will sell the land into the hand of evil men. I will make the land desolate, and all that is therein, by the hand of foreigners. I, the LORD, have spoken it.”

Proverbs 28:15-16

¹⁵As a roaring lion or a charging bear, so is a wicked ruler over helpless people. ¹⁶A tyrannical ruler lacks judgment. One who hates ill-gotten gain will have long days.

Proverbs 28:3

³A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.

Micah 1:2

²Hear, you peoples, all of you! Listen, O earth, and all that is therein. Let the Lord^[+] GOD be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.

Proverbs 19:12

¹²The king’s wrath is like the roaring of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

Ezekiel 22:25

²⁵There is a conspiracy of her prophets within it, like a roaring lion ravening the prey. They have devoured souls. They take treasure and precious things. They have made many widows within it.

Amos 6:8

⁸“The Lord GOD has sworn by himself,” says the LORD, the God of Armies: “I abhor the pride of Jacob, and detest his fortresses. Therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is in it.

¹⁹Tell the people of the land, ‘The Lord GOD says concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the land of Israel: “They will eat their bread with fearfulness and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate, and all that is therein, because of the violence of all those who dwell therein.