Lions

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• Revelation 5:5

  And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.

• 1 Peter 5:8

  Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

• Proverbs 28:1

  The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.

• Hosea 11:10

  They shall walk after the LORD: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west.

• Proverbs 19:12

  The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.

• 2 Timothy 4:17

  Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

• Proverbs 30:30

  A lion which is strongest among beasts, and turneth not away for any;

• Psalms 34:10

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

• Psalms 104:21

  The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.

• Isaiah 31:4

  For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.

• Nahum 2:12

  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.

• Hosea 5:14

  For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.

• Genesis 49:9

  Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?

• Psalms 17:12

  Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

• Hebrews 11:33

  Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

• Lamentations 3:10

  He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.

• Judges 14:18

  And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said unto them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.

• Daniel 7:4

  The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it.

• Isaiah 11:6

  The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

• Isaiah 65:25

  The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.

• Jeremiah 51:38

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

• Revelation 4:7

  And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.

• Psalms 7:2

  Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

• Job 4:10

  The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

• Proverbs 20:2

  The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.

• Ezekiel 10:14

  And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of a cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.

• Psalms 22:13

  They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

• Isaiah 38:13

  I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

• Deuteronomy 33:20

  And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head.

• Isaiah 5:29

  Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.

• Jeremiah 49:19

  Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?

• Amos 3:8

  The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?

• Proverbs 22:13

  The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.

• 1 Kings 13:24–28

  And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcase. And, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the way, and the lion standing by the carcase: and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt. And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard thereof, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient unto the word of the LORD: therefore the LORD hath delivered him unto the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake unto him. …

• Jeremiah 2:15

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

• Hosea 13:8

  I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.

• Amos 3:7–8

  Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets. The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?

• 1 Kings 20:36

  Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall slay thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him.

• Psalms 10:9

  He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.

• Isaiah 11:6–9

  The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den. …