Jeremiah 2:15
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New International Version (©1984)
Lions have roared; they have growled at him. They have laid waste his land; his towns are burned and deserted.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"The young lions have roared at him, They have roared loudly. And they have made his land a waste; His cities have been destroyed, without inhabitant.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Young lions have roared very loudly at them. Young lions have turned the land into a wasteland. The cities have been burned down, and everyone has left.

King James Bible
The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.

American King James Version
The young lions roared on him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.

American Standard Version
The young lions have roared upon him, and yelled; and they have made his land waste: his cities are burned up, without inhabitant.

Bible in Basic English
The young lions have made an outcry against him with a loud voice: they have made his land waste; his towns are burned up, with no one living in them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The lions have roared upon him, and have made a noise, they have made his land a wilderness: his cities are burnt down and there is none to dwell in them.

Darby Bible Translation
The young lions roared against him, they gave forth their voice, and they made his land desolate: his cities are burned, without inhabitant.

English Revised Version
The young lions have roared upon him, and yelled: and they have made his land waste; his cities are burned up, without inhabitant.

Webster's Bible Translation
The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.

World English Bible
The young lions have roared at him, and yelled. They have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.

Young's Literal Translation
Against him roar do young lions, They have given forth their voice, And make his land become a desolation, His cities have been burnt without inhabitant.

Geneva Study Bible

The young {x} lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without {y} inhabitant.

(x) The Babylonians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians.

(y) Not one will be left to dwell there.

Wesley's Notes

2:15 Lions - Understand the Assyrians, Babylonians, and Egyptians, called lions from their fierceness, and young from their strength. Yelled - Noting the terrible voice that the lion puts forth, either in seizing the prey, or devouring it.

King James Translators' Notes

yelled: Heb. gave out their voice

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

15. lions-the Babylonian princes (Jer 4:7; compare Am 3:4). The disaster from the Babylonians in the fourth year of Jehoiakim's reign, and again three years later when, relying on Egypt, he revolted from Nebuchadnezzar, is here referred to (Jer 46:2; 2Ki 24:1, 2).

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

2:14-19 Is Israel a servant? No, they are the seed of Abraham. We may apply this spiritually: Is the soul of man a slave? No, it is not; but has sold its own liberty, and enslaved itself to divers lusts and passions. The Assyrian princes, like lions, prevailed against Israel. People from Egypt destroyed their glory and strength. They brought these calamities on themselves by departing from the Lord. The use and application of this is, Repent of thy sin, that thy correction may not be thy ruin. What has a Christian to do in the ways of forbidden pleasure or vain sinful mirth, or with the pursuits of covetousness and ambition?


Jeremiah 4:7 "A lion has gone up from his thicket, And 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 Without inhabitant.
Jeremiah 50:17 "Israel is a scattered flock, the lions have driven them away. The first one who devoured him was the king of Assyria, and this last one who has broken his bones is Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. (NASB ©1995)

Burned Burnt Cities Deserted Desolate Desolation Destroyed Inhabitant Lions Loud Outcry Resound Roar Roared Ruins Towns Voice Waste Young

The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.

young lions Jer 5:6 25:30 50:17 Jud 14:5 Job 4:10 Ps 57:4 Isa 5:29 Ho 5:14 11:10 13:7,8 Am 3:4,8,13 Na 2:11

yelled. Heb. gave out their voice. they made Isa 1:7 24:1 Eze 5:14

his cities Jer 4:7 9:11 26:9 33:10 34:22 44:22 Isa 5:9 6:11 Zep 1:18 2:5 3:6

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