Jeremiah 2:15

Like lions his enemies roar victoriously over him; they raise their voices in triumph. ¹  They have laid his land waste; his cities have been burned down and deserted. ² 

biblegateway Jer 2:15

Lions have roared; they have growled at him. They have laid waste his land; his towns are burned and deserted.

biblegateway Jer 2:15

"The young lions have roared at him, They have roared loudly. And they have made his land a waste; His cities have been destroyed, without inhabitant.

biblegateway Jer 2:15

Lions have roared against her. The land has been destroyed, and the cities are now in ruins. No one lives in them anymore.

biblegateway Jer 2:15

fought over by snarling and roaring lions? There's nothing left of her but a few old bones, her towns trashed and deserted.

SABDAweb Jer 2:15

The young lions have made an outcry against him with a loud voice: they have made his land waste; his towns are burned up, with no one living in them.

bibleoremus Jer 2:15

The lions have roared against him, they have roared loudly. They have made his land a waste; his cities are in ruins, without inhabitant.

biblegateway Jer 2:15

The young lions roared at him, and growled; They made his land waste; His cities are burned, without inhabitant.

biblegateway Jer 2:15

Like lions his enemies roar victoriously over him; they raise their voices in triumph. ¹  They have laid his land waste; his cities have been burned down and deserted. ² 

¹ tn Heb “Lions shout over him, they give out [raise] their voices.”

¹ sn The reference to lions is here a metaphor for the Assyrians (and later the Babylonians, see Jer 50:17). The statement about lions roaring over their prey implies that the prey has been vanquished.

² tn Heb “without inhabitant.”