Jeremiah 51 · Verse 38

Jeremiah 51:38

They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions’ whelps.
Jeremiah 51:38, King James Version

Jeremiah 51:38 in other translations

BSBThey will roar together like young lions; they will growl like lion cubs.
WEBThey will roar together like young lions. They will growl as lions’ cubs.
ASVThey shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions’ whelps.
YLTTogether as young lions they roar, They have shaken themselves as lions' whelps.
DARBYThey shall roar together like young lions, growl as lions' whelps.
BBEThey will be crying out together like lions, their voices will be like the voices of young lions.
WebsterThey shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps.

What does Jeremiah 51:38 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Jeremiah 51:38-39
38-39. The capture of Babylon was effected on the night of a festival in honor of its idols. roar ... yell--The Babylonians were shouting in drunken revelry (compare Da 5:4).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 51:1-58

Babylon's doom; God's controversy with her; encouragements from thence to the Israel of God. (Jr 51:1-58) The confirming of this. (Jr 51:59-64) Verses 1-58 The particulars of this prophecy are dispersed and interwoven, and the same things left and returned to again. Babylon is abundant in treasures, yet neither her waters nor her wealth shall secure her. Destruction comes when they did not think of it. Wherever we…

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Jeremiah 51:38 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

יַחְדָּ֖וyach.DavtogetherH3162
כַּכְּפִרִ֣יםka.ke.fi.Rimlike <the> young lionsH3715
יִשְׁאָ֑גוּyish.'A.guthey roarH7580
נָעֲר֖וּna.'a.Ruthey growlH5286
כְּגוֹרֵ֥יke.go.Reilike cubs ofH1484
אֲרָיֽוֹת\׃'a.ra.YotlionsH738

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Cross references for Jeremiah 51:38

  • Jeremiah 2:15

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

  • Judges 16:20

    And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the Lord was departed from him.

  • Nahum 2:11-13

    Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion’s whelp, and none made them afraid? The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin. Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.

  • Job 4:10-11

    The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken. The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.

  • Isaiah 35:9

    No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there:

  • Psalms 34:10

    The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.

  • Zechariah 11:3

    There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.

  • Psalms 58:6

    Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord.

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roar.
2:15; Job 4:10,11; Ps 34:10; 58:6; Isa 35:9; Na 2:11-13; Zec 11:3
yell. or, shake themselves.
Jud 16:20

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Context

  • Jeremiah 51:37

    And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.

  • Jeremiah 51:38

    They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions’ whelps.

  • Jeremiah 51:39

    In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the Lord.

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Jeremiah 51:38 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		A una rugirán como leones; como cachorros de leones bramarán.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Ils rugiront ensemble comme de jeunes lions, ils gronderont comme les petits des lions.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Sie brüllen allzumal wie junge Löwen, knurren wie die Jungen der Löwinnen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Simul ut leones rugient; excutient comas veluti catuli leonum.