Jeremiah 51:38 — Bible Verse (KJV)

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

Jeremiah 51:38 — King James Version (KJV), 1611

Jeremiah 51:38 in 6 Bible Translations

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Jeremiah 51:38 WEB — World English Bible (2000)

“They will roar together like young lions. They will growl as lions’ cubs.”

Jeremiah 51:38 — World English Bible

Jeremiah 51:38 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)

“They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions’ whelps.”

Jeremiah 51:38 — American Standard Version

Jeremiah 51:38 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)

“Together as young lions they roar, They have shaken themselves as lions' whelps.”

Jeremiah 51:38 — Young's Literal Translation

Jeremiah 51:38 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)

“They shall roar together like young lions, growl as lions' whelps. ”

Jeremiah 51:38 — Darby Translation

Jeremiah 51:38 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)

“They shall rore together like lions, and yell as the lyons whelpes.”

Jeremiah 51:38 — Geneva Bible

Jeremiah 51:38 in Context — Jeremiah 51

36 Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.

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

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

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.

40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.

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What Does Jeremiah 51:38 Mean?

Jeremiah 51:38 is a verse from the Book of Jeremiah, part of the Old Testament. It appears in Jeremiah chapter 51. Use The Living Sword's word-by-word study mode to explore every word in the original Hebrew and Aramaic.

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