Jeremiah 25:38

WEB

³⁸He has left his covert, as the lion; for their land has become an astonishment because of the fierceness of the oppression, and because of his fierce anger.

KJV

³⁸He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.

BSB

³⁸He has left His den like a lion, for their land has been made a desolation by the sword ^[+] of the oppressor, and because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

FBV

³⁸The Lord has left his den like a lion, because their country has been devastated by the invading armies, and because of the Lord's fierce anger.

Extra References

Jeremiah 4:7

⁷A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations. He is on his way. He has gone out from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.

Hosea 5:14

¹⁴For I will be to Ephraim like a lion, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear in pieces and go away. I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver.

⁶Therefore a lion out of the forest will kill them. A wolf of the evenings will destroy them. A leopard will watch against their cities. Everyone who goes out there will be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many and their backsliding has increased.

Hosea 13:7-8

⁷Therefore I am like a lion to them. Like a leopard, I will lurk by the path. ⁸I will meet them like a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, and will tear the covering of their heart. There I will devour them like a lioness. The wild animal will tear them.

Psalms 76:2

²His tabernacle is also in Salem. His dwelling place in Zion.

Hosea 11:10

¹⁰They will walk after the LORD, who will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children will come trembling from the west.

Jeremiah 50:44

⁴⁴Behold, the enemy will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan against the strong habitation; for I will suddenly make them run away from it. Whoever is chosen, I will appoint him over it, for who is like me? Who will appoint me a time? Who is the shepherd who can stand before me?”

Zechariah 2:3

³Behold, the angel who talked with me went out, and another angel went out to meet him,

Jeremiah 49:19

¹⁹“Behold, he will come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation; for I will suddenly make them run away from it, and whoever is chosen, I will appoint him over it. For who is like me? Who will appoint me a time? Who is the shepherd who will stand before me?”

Amos 8:8

⁸Won’t the land tremble for this, and everyone mourn who dwells in it? Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River; and it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt.