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Jeremiah 4:7
A lion has come out of his lair; a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his place to lay waste your land. Your towns will lie in ruins without inhabitant. (niv)
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Jeremiah 50:17
“ Israel is a scattered flock that lions have chased away. The first to devour them was the king of Assyria; the last to crush their bones was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.” (niv)
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Isaiah 1:7
Your country is desolate, your cities burned with fire; your fields are being stripped by foreigners right before you, laid waste as when overthrown by strangers. (niv)
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Isaiah 5:29
Their roar is like that of the lion, they roar like young lions; they growl as they seize their prey and carry it off with no one to rescue. (niv)
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Jeremiah 9:11
“ I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals; and I will lay waste the towns of Judah so no one can live there.” (niv)
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Jeremiah 26:9
Why do you prophesy in the Lord’s name that this house will be like Shiloh and this city will be desolate and deserted?” And all the people crowded around Jeremiah in the house of the Lord. (niv)
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Ezekiel 5:14
“ I will make you a ruin and a reproach among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by. (niv)
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Nahum 2:11
Where now is the lions’ den, the place where they fed their young, where the lion and lioness went, and the cubs, with nothing to fear? (niv)
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Zephaniah 2:5
Woe to you who live by the sea, you Kerethite people; the word of the Lord is against you, Canaan, land of the Philistines. He says,“ I will destroy you, and none will be left.” (niv)
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Isaiah 24:1
See, the Lord is going to lay waste the earth and devastate it; he will ruin its face and scatter its inhabitants— (niv)
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Jeremiah 44:22
When the Lord could no longer endure your wicked actions and the detestable things you did, your land became a curse and a desolate waste without inhabitants, as it is today. (niv)
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Amos 3:4
Does a lion roar in the thicket when it has no prey? Does it growl in its den when it has caught nothing? (niv)
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Hosea 5:14
For I will be like a lion to Ephraim, like a great lion to Judah. I will tear them to pieces and go away; I will carry them off, with no one to rescue them. (niv)
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Amos 3:12
This is what the Lord says:“ As a shepherd rescues from the lion’s mouth only two leg bones or a piece of an ear, so will the Israelites living in Samaria be rescued, with only the head of a bed and a piece of fabric from a couch.” (niv)
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Zephaniah 3:6
“ I have destroyed nations; their strongholds are demolished. I have left their streets deserted, with no one passing through. Their cities are laid waste; they are deserted and empty. (niv)
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Isaiah 5:9
The Lord Almighty has declared in my hearing:“ Surely the great houses will become desolate, the fine mansions left without occupants. (niv)
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Isaiah 6:11
Then I said,“ For how long, Lord?” And he answered:“ Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left deserted and the fields ruined and ravaged, (niv)
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Hosea 13:7-8
So I will be like a lion to them, like a leopard I will lurk by the path.Like a bear robbed of her cubs, I will attack them and rip them open; like a lion I will devour them— a wild animal will tear them apart. (niv)
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Zephaniah 1:18
Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to save them on the day of the Lord’s wrath.” In the fire of his jealousy the whole earth will be consumed, for he will make a sudden end of all who live on the earth. (niv)
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Amos 3:8
The lion has roared— who will not fear? The Sovereign Lord has spoken— who can but prophesy? (niv)
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Jeremiah 34:22
I am going to give the order, declares the Lord, and I will bring them back to this city. They will fight against it, take it and burn it down. And I will lay waste the towns of Judah so no one can live there.” (niv)
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Judges 14:5
Samson went down to Timnah together with his father and mother. As they approached the vineyards of Timnah, suddenly a young lion came roaring toward him. (niv)
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Jeremiah 25:30
“ Now prophesy all these words against them and say to them:“‘ The Lord will roar from on high; he will thunder from his holy dwelling and roar mightily against his land. He will shout like those who tread the grapes, shout against all who live on the earth. (niv)
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Job 4:10
The lions may roar and growl, yet the teeth of the great lions are broken. (niv)
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Hosea 11:10
They will follow the Lord; he will roar like a lion. When he roars, his children will come trembling from the west. (niv)
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Psalms 57:4
I am in the midst of lions; I am forced to dwell among ravenous beasts— men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords. (niv)
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Jeremiah 5:6
Therefore a lion from the forest will attack them, a wolf from the desert will ravage them, a leopard will lie in wait near their towns to tear to pieces any who venture out, for their rebellion is great and their backslidings many. (niv)
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Jeremiah 33:10
“ This is what the Lord says:‘ You say about this place,“ It is a desolate waste, without people or animals.” Yet in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem that are deserted, inhabited by neither people nor animals, there will be heard once more (niv)