Roar

Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion roared against him.   Judges 14:5 

Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof: let the fields rejoice, and all that is therein.   1 Chronicles 16:32 

For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.   Job 3:24 

The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.   Job 4:10 

After it a voice roareth: he thundereth with the voice of his excellency; and he will not stay them when his voice is heard.   Job 37:4 

My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.   Psalm 22:1, 2 

They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.   Psalm 22:13 

When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.   Psalm 32:3 

I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.   Psalm 38:8 

Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.   Psalm 46:3 

Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.   Psalm 74:4 

Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof.   Psalm 96:11 

Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.   Psalm 98:7 

The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.   Psalm 104:21 

The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.   Proverbs 19:12 

The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.   Proverbs 20:2 

As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.   Proverbs 28:15 

Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.
And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.   Isaiah 5:29, 30 

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.   Isaiah 31:4 

The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies.   Isaiah 42:13 

But I am the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts is his name.   Isaiah 51:15 

We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.   Isaiah 59:11 

The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.   Jeremiah 2:15 

Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.   Jeremiah 5:22, 23 

They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.   Jeremiah 6:23 

Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.   Jeremiah 25:30 

Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:
If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.   Jeremiah 31:35, 36 

They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will not shew mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, every one put in array, like a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.   Jeremiah 50:42 

They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps.   Jeremiah 51:38 

Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:
Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD God of recompences shall surely requite.   Jeremiah 51:55, 56 

And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.   Ezekiel 19:7 

There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.   Ezekiel 22:25 

They shall walk after the LORD: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west.   Hosea 11:10 

The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.   Joel 3:16 

And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.   Amos 1:2 

Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?
Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for him? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?
Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.
The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?
Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof.   Amos 3:4-9 

Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.   Zephaniah 3:3 

There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.   Zechariah 11:3 

And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.   Luke 21:25, 26 

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.   1 Peter 5:8, 9 

And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.   Revelation 10:3 

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