Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
And filled his lairs with prey
And his dens with torn flesh.
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
and strangled prey for its lionesses.
It filled up its dens with the kill,
and its lairs with mauled prey.
International Standard Version
This lion renders its prey to pieces to feed its whelps, and strangles enough prey for its mate, filling its lairs with prey and its dens with rendered flesh.
A Conservative Version
The lion tore in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with prey, and his dens with prey.
American Standard Version
The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with prey, and his dens with ravin.
Amplified
The lion [of Assyria] tore enough for his cubs (Assyrian citizens),
Killed [enough prey] for his lionesses,
And filled his lairs with prey
And his dens with torn flesh.
Bible in Basic English
Food enough for his young and for his she-lions was pulled down by the lion; his hole was full of flesh and his resting-place stored with meat.
Darby Translation
The lion tore in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.
Julia Smith Translation
The lion tore in pieces the sufficiency of his whelps, and strangling for his lionesses; and his holes shall be filled with the prey, and his dens with that torn in pieces.
King James 2000
The lion did tear in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with prey, and his dens with torn flesh.
Lexham Expanded Bible
The lion tore apart enough [prey] for his cubs, he strangled [prey] for his lioness; he filled {his lair} [with] prey and his den [with] mangled carcass.
Modern King James verseion
The lion tears in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangles for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with torn prey.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But the lion spoiled enough for his young ones, and devoured for his lioness: he filled his dens with his prey, and his dwelling place with that he had ravished.
NET Bible
The lion tore apart as much prey as his cubs needed and strangled prey to provide food for his lionesses; he filled his lairs with prey and his dens with torn flesh.
New Heart English Bible
The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill, and his dens with prey.
The Emphasized Bible
The lion, used to tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and to strangle for his lionesses, - and then fill with prey his holes, and his lairs with what he had torn.
Webster
The lion tore in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.
World English Bible
The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill, and his dens with prey.
Youngs Literal Translation
The lion is tearing parts for his whelps, And is strangling for his lionesses, And he doth fill with prey his holes, And his habitations with rapine.
Themes
Animals » Lions » Characteristics of
Caves » Were used as » Hiding places of wild beasts
Lions » Instincts of, in taking prey
Interlinear
Taraph
Labiy'
Word Count of 20 Translations in Nahum 2:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Divine Warrior Will Hunt Down The Mighty Lions
11
And the feeding place of the
Where the lion, lioness and lion’s cub prowled,
With nothing to disturb them?
And filled his lairs with prey
And his dens with torn flesh.
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 51:34
He has set me down like an
He has
He has filled his stomach with my delicacies;
He has washed me away.
Psalm 17:12
And as a young lion
Isaiah 10:6-14
And commission it against the
To capture booty and
And to