Psalm 104:21 “The young lions roar for their prey and seek their food from God.”

Psalm 104:21

The young lions roar for their prey and seek their food from God.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

The young lions roar after their prey, And seek their food from God.

Geneva Bible 1599

The lions roare after their praye, and seeke their meate at God.

Darby Translation

The young lions roar after the prey, and to seek their food from God.

Young's Literal Translation

The young lions are roaring for prey, And to seek from God their food.

Bible in Basic English

The young lions go thundering after their food; searching for their meat from God.

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Cross references

“The young”

Job 38:39 Psalm 34:10 Ezekiel 19:2–14 Isaiah 31:4 Amos 3:4

Job 38:39 · BSB

Can you hunt the prey for a lioness or satisfy the hunger of young lions

Psalm 34:10 · BSB

Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.

Ezekiel 19:2–14 · BSB

and say: ‘What was your mother? A lioness among the lions! She lay down among the young lions; she reared her cubs.

Isaiah 31:4 · BSB

For this is what the LORD has said to me: “Like a lion roaring or a young lion over its prey— and though a band of shepherds is called out against it, it is not terrified by their shouting or subdued by their clamor— so…

Amos 3:4 · BSB

Does a lion roar in the forest when he has no prey? Does a young lion growl in his den if he has caught nothing?

“seek”

Joel 1:20 Joel 2:22 Psalm 147:9 Job 38:41 Joel 1:18

Joel 1:20 · BSB

Even the beasts of the field pant for You, for the streams of water have dried up, and fire has consumed the open pastures.

Joel 2:22 · BSB

Do not be afraid, O beasts of the field, for the open pastures have turned green, the trees bear their fruit, and the fig tree and vine yield their best.

Psalm 147:9 · BSB

He provides food for the animals, and for the young ravens when they call.

Job 38:41 · BSB

Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God as they wander about for lack of food?

Joel 1:18 · BSB

How the cattle groan! The herds wander in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.

Also

Psalm 145:15

Psalm 145:15 · BSB

The eyes of all look to You, and You give them their food in season.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

20You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the beasts of the forest prowl.

22The sun rises, and they withdraw; they lie down in their dens.

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