"Son of man, take up a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: 'You are like a lion among the nations; you are like a monster in the seas. You thrash about in your rivers, churning up the waters with your feet and muddying the streams.' Cross References Matthew 7:24 Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. Job 7:12 Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep, that You must keep me under guard? Proverbs 25:26 Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked. Isaiah 27:1 In that day the LORD will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan the fleeing serpent--Leviathan the coiling serpent--and He will slay the dragon of the sea. Jeremiah 4:7 A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to lay waste your land. Your cities will be reduced to ruins and lie uninhabited. Jeremiah 46:7 Who is this, rising like the Nile, like rivers whose waters churn? Jeremiah 46:8 Egypt rises like the Nile, and its waters churn like rivers, boasting, 'I will rise and cover the earth; I will destroy the cities and their people.' Ezekiel 19:1 "As for you, take up a lament for the princes of Israel Ezekiel 19:2 and say: 'What was your mother? A lioness among the lions! She lay down among the young lions; she reared her cubs. Ezekiel 26:17 Then they will lament for you, saying, "How you have perished, O city of renown inhabited by seafaring men--she who was powerful on the sea, along with her people, who imposed terror on all peoples! Ezekiel 27:2 "Now you, son of man, take up a lament for Tyre. Ezekiel 28:12 "Son of man, take up a lament for the king of Tyre and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: 'You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. Ezekiel 29:3 Speak to him and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Pharaoh king of Egypt, O great monster who lies among his rivers, who says, 'The Nile is mine; I made it myself.' Ezekiel 29:15 Egypt will be the lowliest of kingdoms and will never again exalt itself above the nations. For I will diminish Egypt so that it will never again rule over the nations. Ezekiel 32:16 This is the lament they will chant for her; the daughters of the nations will chant it. Over Egypt and all her multitudes they will chant it, declares the Lord GOD." Ezekiel 32:18 "Son of man, wail for the multitudes of Egypt, and consign her and the daughters of the mighty nations to the depths of the earth with those who descend to the Pit: Nahum 2:11 Where is the lions' lair or the feeding ground of the young lions, where the lion and lioness prowled with their cubs, with nothing to frighten them away? Treasury of Scripture Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him, You are like a young lion of the nations, and you are as a whale in the seas: and you came forth with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers. take up Ezekiel 32:16,18 Ezekiel 19:1 Ezekiel 27:2,32 Thou art like Ezekiel 19:2-6 Ezekiel 38:13 Genesis 49:9 and thou art as Ezekiel 29:3 Psalm 74:13,14 Isaiah 27:1 whale. Ezekiel 34:18 |