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Zephaniah 3:3
The princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are wolves of the night, which leave nothing for the morning.
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Jeremiah 4:7
A lion has gone up from his thicket; a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to make your land a waste. Your cities will be reduced to uninhabited ruins.
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Habakkuk 1:8
Their horses are swifter than leopards and more fierce than wolves of the night. Their horsemen charge ahead; their horsemen come from distant lands. They fly like eagles, swooping to devour.
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Ezekiel 22:27
“ Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives in order to make profit dishonestly.
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Hosea 13:7-8
So I will be like a lion to them; I will lurk like a leopard on the path.I will attack them like a bear robbed of her cubs and tear open the rib cage over their hearts. I will devour them there like a lioness, like a wild beast that would rip them open.
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Daniel 7:6
“ After this, while I was watching, suddenly another beast appeared. It was like a leopard with four wings of a bird on its back. It had four heads, and it was given dominion.
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Ezra 9:6
And I said: My God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face toward you, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads and our guilt is as high as the heavens.
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Jeremiah 2:17
Have you not brought this on yourself by abandoning the LORD your God while he was leading you along the way?
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Jeremiah 9:12-14
Who is the person wise enough to understand this? Who has the LORD spoken to, that he may explain it? Why is the land destroyed and scorched like a wilderness, so no one can pass through?The LORD said,“ It is because they abandoned my instruction, which I set before them, and did not obey my voice or walk according to it.Instead, they followed the stubbornness of their hearts and followed the Baals as their ancestors taught them.”
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Numbers 32:14
And here you, a brood of sinners, stand in your ancestors’ place adding even more to the LORD’s burning anger against Israel.
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Jeremiah 2:15
The young lions have roared at him; they have roared loudly. They have laid waste his land. His cities are in ruins, without inhabitants.
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Revelation 13:2
The beast I saw was like a leopard, its feet were like a bear’s, and its mouth was like a lion’s mouth. The dragon gave the beast his power, his throne, and great authority.
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Jeremiah 16:10-12
“ When you tell these people all these things, they will say to you,‘ Why has the LORD declared all this terrible disaster against us? What is our iniquity? What is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?’Then you will answer them,‘ Because your ancestors abandoned me— this is the LORD’s declaration— and followed other gods, served them, and bowed in worship to them. Indeed, they abandoned me and did not keep my instruction.You did more evil than your ancestors. Look, each one of you was following the stubbornness of his evil heart, not obeying me.
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Jeremiah 49:19
“ Look, it will be like a lion coming from the thickets of the Jordan to the watered grazing land. I will chase Edom away from her land in a flash. I will appoint whoever is chosen for her. For who is like me? Who will issue me a summons? Who is the shepherd who can stand against me?”
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Jeremiah 30:14
All your lovers have forgotten you; they no longer look for you, for I have struck you as an enemy would, with the discipline of someone cruel, because of your enormous guilt and your innumerable sins.
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Ezra 10:10
Then the priest Ezra stood up and said to them,“ You have been unfaithful by marrying foreign women, adding to Israel’s guilt.
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Amos 5:18-19
Woe to you who long for the day of the LORD! What will the day of the LORD be for you? It will be darkness and not light.It will be like a man who flees from a lion only to have a bear confront him. He goes home and rests his hand against the wall only to have a snake bite him.
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Psalms 104:20
You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the forest animals stir.
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Jeremiah 30:24
The LORD’s burning anger will not turn back until he has completely fulfilled the purposes of his heart. In time to come you will understand it.
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Hosea 5:14
For I am like a lion to Ephraim and like a young lion to the house of Judah. Yes, I will tear them to pieces and depart. I will carry them off, and no one can rescue them.
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Ezekiel 14:16-21
Even if these three men were in it, as I live”— the declaration of the Lord GOD—“ they could not rescue their sons or daughters. They alone would be rescued, but the land would be desolate.“ Or suppose I bring a sword against that land and say,‘ Let a sword pass through it,’ so that I wipe out both people and animals from it.Even if these three men were in it, as I live”— the declaration of the Lord GOD—“ they could not rescue their sons or daughters, but they alone would be rescued.“ Or suppose I send a plague into that land and pour out my wrath on it with bloodshed to wipe out both people and animals from it.Even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live”— the declaration of the Lord GOD—“ they could not rescue their son or daughter. They would rescue only themselves by their righteousness.“ For this is what the Lord GOD says: How much worse will it be when I send my four devastating judgments against Jerusalem— sword, famine, dangerous animals, and plague— in order to wipe out both people and animals from it!
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Isaiah 59:12
For our transgressions have multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us. For our transgressions are with us, and we know our iniquities:
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Nahum 2:11-12
Where is the lions’ lair, or the feeding ground of the young lions, where the lion and lioness prowled, and the lion’s cub, with nothing to frighten them away?The lion mauled whatever its cubs needed and strangled prey for its lionesses. It filled up its dens with the kill, and its lairs with mauled prey.
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Ezekiel 23:19
Yet she multiplied her acts of promiscuity, remembering the days of her youth when she acted like a prostitute in the land of Egypt
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Jeremiah 14:7
Though our iniquities testify against us, LORD, act for your name’s sake. Indeed, our rebellions are many; we have sinned against you.
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Lamentations 1:5
Her adversaries have become her masters; her enemies are at ease, for the LORD has made her suffer because of her many transgressions. Her children have gone away as captives before the adversary.
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Jeremiah 2:19
Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Recognize how evil and bitter it is for you to abandon the LORD your God and to have no fear of me. This is the declaration of the Lord GOD of Armies.
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Daniel 7:4
“ The first was like a lion but had eagle’s wings. I continued watching until its wings were torn off. It was lifted up from the ground, set on its feet like a man, and given a human mind.
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Ezekiel 16:25
You built your elevated place at the head of every street and turned your beauty into a detestable thing. You spread your legs to everyone who passed by and increased your prostitution.
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Jeremiah 25:38
He has left his den like a lion, for their land has become a desolation because of the sword of the oppressor, because of his burning anger.
