Bible Verses About Lions
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These are the Bible verses most often cited for lions, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 161,026 votes, led by Revelation 5:5. Each passage links into the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Lions
Revelation 5:54,117 votes
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 5:83,745 votes
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Proverbs 28:13,253 votes
The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
Hosea 11:103,248 votes
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 19:123,141 votes
The king’s wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.
2 Timothy 4:172,973 votes
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 30:302,907 votes
A lion which is strongest among beasts, and turneth not away for any;
Psalms 34:102,802 votes
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.
Psalms 104:212,758 votes
The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.
Isaiah 31:42,688 votes
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 2:122,562 votes
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 5:142,558 votes
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 49:92,318 votes
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 17:122,258 votes
Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
Hebrews 11:332,121 votes
Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
Lamentations 3:102,064 votes
He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
Judges 14:182,050 votes
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 7:42,008 votes
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 11:61,994 votes
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 65:251,938 votes
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 51:381,879 votes
They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions’ whelps.
Revelation 4:71,845 votes
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 7:21,839 votes
Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
Job 4:101,827 votes
The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
Proverbs 20:21,825 votes
The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.