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The concept of prey is used both literally and metaphorically throughout the Scriptures, illustrating themes of vulnerability, judgment, and divine protection.<br><br><b>Old Testament Usage</b><br><br>The Hebrew word most commonly translated as "prey" is "טֶרֶף" (terep), which appears in various contexts. In <a href="/genesis/49-9.htm">Genesis 49:9</a>, Jacob blesses his son Judah, saying, "Judah is a young lion—my son, you return from the prey. Like a lion, he crouches and lies down; like a lioness, who dares to rouse him?" . Here, "prey" signifies the spoils or gains of a lion, symbolizing strength and victory.<br><br>In the prophetic literature, "prey" often denotes the spoils of war or the victims of conquest. For instance, in <a href="/isaiah/10-6.htm">Isaiah 10:6</a>, God speaks of sending Assyria against a "godless nation," to seize "spoil and snatch plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets" . The imagery of prey highlights the vulnerability of those who are subject to divine judgment through foreign invaders.<br><br>The theme of prey is also present in the context of divine justice and protection. In <a href="/ezekiel/34-8.htm">Ezekiel 34:8</a>, God condemns the leaders of Israel for failing to protect His people: "As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because My flock lacks a shepherd and has become prey for all the wild beasts, and because My shepherds did not search for My flock but fed themselves instead" . Here, the people of Israel are depicted as prey due to the negligence of their leaders, emphasizing the need for righteous and protective leadership.<br><br><b>New Testament Usage</b><br><br>While the New Testament does not frequently use the term "prey," the concept is present in the teachings of Jesus and the apostles. In <a href="/matthew/7-15.htm">Matthew 7:15</a>, Jesus warns against false prophets, describing them as "wolves in sheep's clothing." The metaphor of wolves preying on sheep underscores the danger posed by deceptive leaders who seek to exploit the faithful.<br><br>The apostle Peter also uses similar imagery in <a href="/1_peter/5-8.htm">1 Peter 5:8</a>, where he exhorts believers to be vigilant: "Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour" . Here, the devil is likened to a predator seeking prey, highlighting the spiritual warfare faced by Christians and the need for steadfast faith.<br><br><b>Theological Implications</b><br><br>The concept of prey in the Bible serves as a powerful metaphor for the human condition, illustrating the vulnerability of individuals and nations apart from God's protection. It also underscores the reality of spiritual and physical threats in a fallen world. The imagery of prey and predator is used to convey the consequences of sin, the justice of God, and the hope of deliverance through divine intervention.<br><br>Throughout Scripture, God is portrayed as a protector who rescues His people from those who seek to prey upon them. In <a href="/psalms/124-6.htm">Psalm 124:6-7</a>, the psalmist declares, "Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as prey to their teeth. We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowler; the snare is broken, and we have escaped" . This passage reflects the assurance of God's deliverance and the ultimate triumph of His people over their adversaries.<a name="web" id="web"></a><div class="vheading2">Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary</div>1. (<I>n.</I>) Anything, as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; anything taken by force from an enemy in war; spoil; booty; plunder.<p>2. (<I>n.</I>) That which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be devoured; hence, a person given up as a victim.<p>3. (<I>n.</I>) The act of devouring other creatures; ravage.<p>4. (<I>n.</I>) To take booty; to gather spoil; to ravage; to take food by violence.<a name="isb" id="isb"></a><div class="vheading2">International Standard Bible Encyclopedia</div><span class="encheading">BIRDS OF PREY</span><p>pra: They were undoubtedly the first birds noticed by the compilers of Biblical records. They were camp followers, swarmed over villages and perched on the walls of cities. They were offensive in manner and odor, and of a boldness unknown to us in birds. They flocked in untold numbers, there was small defense against them, and the largest and strongest not only carried away meat prepared for food and sacrifice, but also preyed upon the much-prized house pigeons, newly born of the smaller animals, and even at times attacked young children. See <a href="/genesis/15-11.htm">Genesis 15:11</a>, "And the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away." Because they were attracted from above the clouds by anything suitable for food, people recognized that these were birds of unusual vision. When Job wanted to tell how perfectly the path to the gold mine was concealed, he wrote, "That path no bird of prey knoweth" (<a href="/job/28-7.htm">Job 28:7</a>). The inference is, that, if it were so perfectly concealed that it escaped the piercing eyes of these birds, it was not probable that man would find it. These birds were so strong, fierce and impudent that everyone feared them, and when the prophets gave warning that people would be left for birds of prey to ravage, they fully understood what was meant, and they were afraid (<a href="/isaiah/18-6.htm">Isaiah 18:6</a>). In His complaint against His heritage, Yahweh questions, "Is my heritage unto me as a speckled bird of prey? are the birds of prey against her round about?" (<a href="/jeremiah/12-9.htm">Jeremiah 12:9</a>). And when he prophesied the destruction of Jerusalem, Jeremiah painted a dreadful picture, but one no doubt often seen in that land of pillage and warfare: "Their dead bodies will I give to be food for the birds of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth" (<a href="/jeremiah/19-7.htm">Jeremiah 19:7</a>).<br><br>Gene Stratton-Porter<p><span class="encheading">PREY</span><p>pra (baz, Tereph, shalal): "Prey" is frequent in the Old Testament, chiefly as the translation of baz, "spoil," "plunder" (<a href="/numbers/14-3.htm">Numbers 14:3, 11</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/1-39.htm">Deuteronomy 1:39</a> <a href="/isaiah/10-6.htm">Isaiah 10:6</a>, etc.); of Tereph, "prey of wild beasts," "torn thing" (<a href="/genesis/49-9.htm">Genesis 49:9</a> <a href="/numbers/23-24.htm">Numbers 23:24</a> <a href="/job/4-11.htm">Job 4:11</a>, etc.); of malqoah, "a taking" (<a href="/numbers/31-11.htm">Numbers 31:11</a>, etc.; <a href="/isaiah/49-24.htm">Isaiah 49:24, 25</a>); of shalal, "spoil" or "booty" (<a href="/judges/5-30.htm">Judges 5:30</a> twice; <a href="/judges/8-24.htm">Judges 8:24, 25</a> <a href="/isaiah/10-2.htm">Isaiah 10:2</a>, etc.). Maher-shalal-chash-baz (the Revised Version margin "The spoil speedeth, the prey hasteth") was the symbolical name given to a son of Isaiah (<a href="/isaiah/8-1.htm">Isaiah 8:1, 3</a>). "Prey" does not occur in the New Testament, but is found in the Apoc: 1 Esdras 8:77, "for our sins.... were given up.... for a prey" (pronome); Judith 9:4; 16:05; 1 Maccabees 7:47; Ecclesiasticus 27:10 (thera); Judith 5:24 (katabroma).<br><br>In the Revised Version (British and American) shalal is generally translated "spoil" (<a href="/judges/5-30.htm">Judges 5:30</a>; <a href="/judges/8-24.htm">Judges 8:24, 25</a> <a href="/isaiah/10-2.htm">Isaiah 10:2</a>, etc.), while, conversely, "prey" (noun and verb) is occasionally substituted for "spoil," "booty" (<a href="/numbers/31-32.htm">Numbers 31:32</a>, ere).<br><br>See <a href="../b/booty.htm">BOOTY</a>; <a href="../s/spoil.htm">SPOIL</a>.<br><br>W. L. Walker<p><a name="grk" id="grk"></a><div class="vheading2">Greek</div><a href="/greek/2339.htm"><span class="l">2339. thera -- a hunting, <b>prey</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> a hunting, <b>prey</b>. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: thera Phonetic<br> Spelling: (thay'-rah) Short Definition: hunting, entrapping Definition: hunting <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2339.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p><a href="/greek/1404.htm"><span class="l">1404. drakon -- a dragon (a mythical monster)</span></a> <br><b>...</b> 1404 (from , "to see," the root of the English term, "dragon") -- properly "," used<br> of mythical dragons ( serpents) seeing their <b>prey</b> from far away <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/1404.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 7k</font><p><a href="/greek/4812.htm"><span class="l">4812. sulagogeo -- to carry off as spoil</span></a> <br><b>...</b> 4812 (from ,"a <b>prey</b>, victim" and 71 , "carry off") -- properly, to carry off<br> like a predator with its <b>prey</b>; to spoil (used only in Col 2:8). <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4812.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 7k</font><p><a href="/greek/105.htm"><span class="l">105. aetos -- an eagle</span></a> <br><b>...</b> an eagle. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: aetos Phonetic Spelling:<br> (ah-et-os') Short Definition: an eagle, bird of <b>prey</b> Definition: an eagle <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/105.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p><a href="/greek/1387.htm"><span class="l">1387. dolioo -- to deceive</span></a> <br><b>...</b> (This makes them "easy <b>prey</b>" to .) See 1388 (). Word Origin from dolios Definition<br> to deceive NASB Word Usage deceiving (1). use deceit. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/1387.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p><a href="/greek/2785.htm"><span class="l">2785. ketos -- a huge fish</span></a> <br><b>...</b> whale, sea monster. Probably from the base of chasma; a huge fish (as gaping for<br> <b>prey</b>) -- whale. see GREEK chasma. (ketous) -- 1 Occurrence. 2784, 2785. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2785.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><a name="heb" id="heb"></a><div class="vheading2">Strong's Hebrew</div><a href="/hebrew/2964.htm"><span class="l">2964. tereph -- <b>prey</b>, food, a leaf</span></a><br><b>...</b> 2963, 2964. tereph. 2965 . <b>prey</b>, food, a leaf. Transliteration: tereph<br> Phonetic Spelling: (teh'-ref) Short Definition: <b>prey</b>. Word <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/2964.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/5706.htm"><span class="l">5706. ad -- booty, <b>prey</b></span></a><br><b>...</b> booty, <b>prey</b>. Transliteration: ad Phonetic Spelling: (ad) Short Definition: <b>prey</b>.<br> Word Origin from adah Definition booty, <b>prey</b> NASB Word Usage <b>prey</b> (2). <b>prey</b>. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/5706.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/5861.htm"><span class="l">5861. ayit -- a bird of <b>prey</b></span></a><br><b>...</b> 5860b, 5861. ayit. 5862 . a bird of <b>prey</b>. Transliteration: ayit Phonetic<br> Spelling: (ah'-yit) Short Definition: <b>prey</b>. Word Origin <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/5861.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/7998.htm"><span class="l">7998. shalal -- a <b>prey</b>, spoil, plunder, booty</span></a><br><b>...</b> 7997b, 7998. shalal. 7999 . a <b>prey</b>, spoil, plunder, booty. Transliteration:<br> shalal Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-lawl') Short Definition: spoil. <b>...</b> <b>prey</b>, spoil. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/7998.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/4455a.htm"><span class="l">4455a. malqoach -- booty, <b>prey</b></span></a><br><b>...</b> booty, <b>prey</b>. Transliteration: malqoach Short Definition: <b>prey</b>. Word Origin from<br> laqach Definition booty, <b>prey</b> NASB Word Usage booty (3), <b>prey</b> (4). 4455, 4455a <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/4455a.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 5k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/2863.htm"><span class="l">2863. chetheph -- <b>prey</b></span></a><br><b>...</b> <b>prey</b>. Transliteration: chetheph Phonetic Spelling: (kheh'-thef) Short Definition:<br> robber. Word Origin from chathaph Definition <b>prey</b> NASB Word Usage robber (1). <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/2863.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/7994.htm"><span class="l">7994. shalak -- (bird of <b>prey</b>) probably cormorant</span></a><br><b>...</b> 7993, 7994. shalak. 7995 . (bird of <b>prey</b>) probably cormorant. Transliteration:<br> shalak Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-lawk') Short Definition: cormorant. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/7994.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/4455.htm"><span class="l">4455. malqowach -- booty, <b>prey</b></span></a><br><b>...</b> 4454, 4455. malqowach. 4455a . booty, <b>prey</b>. Transliteration: malqowach Phonetic<br> Spelling: (mal-ko'-akh) Short Definition: booty. booty, jaws, <b>prey</b> <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/4455.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 5k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/4122.htm"><span class="l">4122. Maher Shalal Chash Baz -- "swift (is) booty, speedy (is) <b>...</b></span></a><br>Maher Shalal Chash Baz. 4121, 4122. Maher Shalal Chash Baz. 4123 . "swift<br> (is) booty, speedy (is) <b>prey</b>," symbolic name of Isaiah's son. Transliteration: Maher <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/4122.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/5822.htm"><span class="l">5822. ozniyyah -- (a bird of <b>prey</b>) perhaps vulture</span></a><br><b>...</b> 5821, 5822. ozniyyah. 5823 . (a bird of <b>prey</b>) perhaps vulture. Transliteration:<br> ozniyyah Phonetic Spelling: (oz-nee-yaw') Short Definition: buzzard. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/5822.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><a name="lib" id="lib"></a><div class="vheading2">Library</div><p><a href="/library/wilson-carmichael/things_as_they_are/chapter_v_the_prey_of.htm"><span class="l">The <b>Prey</b> of the Terrible</span></a> <br><b>...</b> CHAPTER V The <b>Prey</b> of the Terrible. <b>...</b> It is the will of the Terrible, who holds on<br> to his <b>prey</b>, and would rather rend it limb from limb than ever let it go. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../wilson-carmichael/things as they are/chapter v the prey of.htm</font><p><a href="/library/tertullian/the_prescription_against_heretics/chapter_iii_weak_people_fall_an.htm"><span class="l">Weak People Fall an Easy <b>Prey</b> to Heresy, which Derives Strength <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> The Prescription Against Heretics. Chapter III."Weak People Fall an Easy <b>Prey</b> to<br> Heresy, Which Derives Strength from the General Frailty of Mankind. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../the prescription against heretics/chapter iii weak people fall an.htm</font><p><a href="/library/ignatius/the_epistle_of_ignatius_to_the_romans/chapter_iv_allow_me_to_fall.htm"><span class="l">Allow Me to Fall a <b>Prey</b> to the Wild Beasts.</span></a> <br><b>...</b> Chapter IV."Allow me to fall a <b>prey</b> to the wild beasts. I write to the<br> Churches, and impress on them all, that I shall willingly <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../ignatius/the epistle of ignatius to the romans/chapter iv allow me to fall.htm</font><p><a href="/library/josephus/the_antiquities_of_the_jews/chapter_10_how_abram_fought.htm"><span class="l">How Abram Fought with the Assyrians, and Overcame Them, and Saved <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> CHAPTER 10. How Abram Fought With The Assyrians, And Overcame Them, And Saved The<br> Sodomite Prisoners, And Took From The Assyrians The <b>Prey</b> They Had Gotten. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 10 how abram fought.htm</font><p><a href="/library/cassian/the_works_of_john_cassian_/chapter_iii_to_what_the.htm"><span class="l">To what the Soul May be Compared which is a <b>Prey</b> to the Attacks of <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> Prolegomena. Chapter III. To what the soul may be compared which is a<br> <b>prey</b> to the attacks of dejection. For the garment that is <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../cassian/the works of john cassian /chapter iii to what the.htm</font><p><a href="/library/tertullian/on_the_apparel_of_women/chapter_ix_gods_distribution_must_regulate.htm"><span class="l">God's Distribution must Regulate Our Desires, Otherwise we Become <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> Book I. Chapter IX."God's Distribution Must Regulate Our Desires, Otherwise<br> We Become the <b>Prey</b> of Ambition and Its Attendant Evils. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../on the apparel of women/chapter ix gods distribution must regulate.htm</font><p><a href="/library/sozomen/the_ecclesiastical_history_of_sozomenus/chapter_viii_concerning_theodore_the_keeper.htm"><span class="l">Concerning Theodore, the Keeper of the Sacred Vessels of Antioch. <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> Sacred Vessels of Antioch. How Julian, the Uncle of the Traitor, on Account<br> of these Vessels, falls a <b>Prey</b> to Worms. It is said <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../chapter viii concerning theodore the keeper.htm</font><p><a href="/library/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/december_24_and_seekest_thou.htm"><span class="l">December 24. "And Seekest Thou Great Things for Thyself? Seek them <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> Seek them not; for behold I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the Lord; but<br> thy life will I give unto thee for a <b>prey</b> in all places whither thou goest" (Jer <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../simpson/days of heaven upon earth /december 24 and seekest thou.htm</font><p><a href="/library/josephus/the_antiquities_of_the_jews/chapter_7_how_the_hebrews.htm"><span class="l">How the Hebrews Fought with the Midianites, and Overcame Them.</span></a> <br><b>...</b> Now when the enemies were discomfited, the Hebrews spoiled their country, and took<br> a great <b>prey</b>, and destroyed the men that were its inhabitants, together with <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 7 how the hebrews.htm</font><p><a href="/library/various/select_masterpieces_of_biblical_literature/xi_nahums_doom_of_nineveh.htm"><span class="l">Nahum's Doom of Nineveh</span></a> <br><b>...</b> The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, And strangled for his lionesses;<br> And filled his caves with <b>prey</b>, And his dens with ravin. 5. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../select masterpieces of biblical literature/xi nahums doom of nineveh.htm</font><a name="thes" id="thes"></a><div class="vheading2">Thesaurus</div><a href="/topical/p/prey.htm"><span class="l"><b>Prey</b> (105 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. BIRDS OF <b>PREY</b>. pra: They were undoubtedly<br> the first birds noticed by the compilers of Biblical records. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/p/prey.htm - 42k</font><p><a href="/topical/b/booty.htm"><span class="l">Booty (32 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> boot'-i (baz and baz): "Booty" is the translation of baz or baz, usually rendered<br> "<b>prey</b>" and "spoil" (Jeremiah 49:32); of malqoach, "<b>prey</b>," "booty" (Numbers 31 <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/b/booty.htm - 18k</font><p><a href="/topical/r/raven.htm"><span class="l">Raven (7 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> 3. (n.) Rapine; rapacity. 4. (n.) <b>Prey</b>; plunder; food obtained by violence. <b>...</b> 7.<br> (vi) To <b>prey</b> with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity. Int. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/r/raven.htm - 14k</font><p><a href="/topical/l/loot.htm"><span class="l">Loot (15 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> (See NIV). Ezekiel 7:21 I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a <b>prey</b>,<br> and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane it. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/l/loot.htm - 11k</font><p><a href="/topical/s/spoils.htm"><span class="l">Spoils (19 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> them.' (See NIV). Numbers 31:11 And they took all the spoil, and all the<br><b>prey</b>, both of man and of beast. (See NIV). Numbers 31:12 <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/s/spoils.htm - 12k</font><p><a href="/topical/p/plundered.htm"><span class="l">Plundered (44 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Numbers 31:32 Now the <b>prey</b>, over and above the booty which the men of war took,<br> was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep, (See NAS). <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/p/plundered.htm - 19k</font><p><a href="/topical/l/lioness.htm"><span class="l">Lioness (13 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> From the <b>prey</b>, my son, you have gone up. <b>...</b> He shall not lie down until he eat of the<br><b>prey</b>, and drinks the blood of the slain." (WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV). <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/l/lioness.htm - 10k</font><p><a href="/topical/r/roaring.htm"><span class="l">Roaring (28 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> (KJV WBS YLT). Psalms 22:13 They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing<br><b>prey</b> and roaring. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV). <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/r/roaring.htm - 15k</font><p><a href="/topical/w/whelp.htm"><span class="l">Whelp (4 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) One of the young of a dog or a beast of<br><b>prey</b>; a puppy; a cub; as, a lion's whelps. 2. (n.) A child <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/w/whelp.htm - 10k</font><p><a href="/topical/t/tearing.htm"><span class="l">Tearing (11 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> And removed is a rock from its place? (YLT). Psalms 22:13 They open their mouths<br> wide against me, lions tearing <b>prey</b> and roaring. (WEB YLT NIV). <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/t/tearing.htm - 9k</font><p><a name="res" id="res"></a><div class="vheading2">Resources</div><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/why-did-God-create-mosquitoes.html">Why did God create mosquitoes? | GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/tribe-of-Benjamin.html">What can we learn from the tribe of Benjamin? | GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/lion-tribe-Judah.html">Who/what is the Lion of the tribe of Judah? | GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="https://clyx.com/term/prey.htm">Prey: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com</a><br /><br /><a href="/concordance/">Bible Concordance</a> • <a href="/dictionary/">Bible Dictionary</a> • <a href="/encyclopedia/">Bible Encyclopedia</a> • <a href="/topical/">Topical Bible</a> • <a href="/thesaurus/">Bible Thesuarus</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="cnc" id="cnc"></a><div class="vheading2">Concordance</div><span class="encheading">Prey (105 Occurrences)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/acts/11-6.htm">Acts 11:6</a></span><br />When I had looked intently at it, I considered, and saw the four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky.<br /><span class="source">(See RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/colossians/2-8.htm">Colossians 2:8</a></span><br />See that there be no one who shall lead you away as a <span class="boldtext">prey</span> through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the teaching of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ.<br /><span class="source">(DBY WBS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/15-11.htm">Genesis 15:11</a></span><br />The birds of <span class="boldtext">prey</span> came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.<br /><span class="source">(WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/34-29.htm">Genesis 34:29</a></span><br />and all their wealth, and all their little ones and their wives, took they captive and made a <span class="boldtext">prey</span>, even all that was in the house.<br /><span class="source">(ASV RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/49-9.htm">Genesis 49:9</a></span><br />Judah is a lion's cub. From the <span class="boldtext">prey</span>, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up?<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/49-27.htm">Genesis 49:27</a></span><br />"Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning he will devour the <span class="boldtext">prey</span>. At evening he will divide the spoil." <br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/14-3.htm">Numbers 14:3</a></span><br />Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a <span class="boldtext">prey</span>: wouldn't it be better for us to return into Egypt?"<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/14-9.htm">Numbers 14:9</a></span><br />Only don't rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defense is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us. Don't fear them."<br /><span class="source">(See NAS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/14-31.htm">Numbers 14:31</a></span><br />But your little ones, that you said should be a <span class="boldtext">prey</span>, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/23-24.htm">Numbers 23:24</a></span><br />Behold, the people rises up as a lioness, As a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eat of the <span class="boldtext">prey</span>, and drinks the blood of the slain."<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/31-9.htm">Numbers 31:9</a></span><br />The children of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones; and all their livestock, and all their flocks, and all their goods, they took for a <span class="boldtext">prey</span>.<br /><span class="source">(WEB JPS ASV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/31-11.htm">Numbers 31:11</a></span><br />They took all the spoil, and all the <span class="boldtext">prey</span>, both of man and of animal.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/31-12.htm">Numbers 31:12</a></span><br />They brought the captives, and the <span class="boldtext">prey</span>, and the spoil, to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan at Jericho.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/31-26.htm">Numbers 31:26</a></span><br />"Take the sum of the <span class="boldtext">prey</span> that was taken, both of man and of animal, you, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers' houses of the congregation;<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/31-27.htm">Numbers 31:27</a></span><br />and divide the <span class="boldtext">prey</span> into two parts: between the men skilled in war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/31-32.htm">Numbers 31:32</a></span><br />Now the <span class="boldtext">prey</span>, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/deuteronomy/1-39.htm">Deuteronomy 1:39</a></span><br />Moreover your little ones, whom you said should be a <span class="boldtext">prey</span>, and your children, who this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there, and to them will I give it, and they shall possess it.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/deuteronomy/2-35.htm">Deuteronomy 2:35</a></span><br />only the livestock we took for a <span class="boldtext">prey</span> to ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we had taken.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/deuteronomy/3-7.htm">Deuteronomy 3:7</a></span><br />But all the livestock, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a <span class="boldtext">prey</span> to ourselves.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/deuteronomy/20-14.htm">Deuteronomy 20:14</a></span><br />but the women, and the little ones, and the livestock, and all that is in the city, even all its spoil, you shall take for a <span class="boldtext">prey</span> to yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you.<br /><span class="source">(WEB JPS ASV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/joshua/8-2.htm">Joshua 8:2</a></span><br />And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a <span class="boldtext">prey</span> unto yourselves: lay thee an ambush for the city behind it.<br /><span class="source">(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/joshua/8-27.htm">Joshua 8:27</a></span><br />Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took for <span class="boldtext">prey</span> to themselves, according to the word of Yahweh which he commanded Joshua.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/joshua/11-14.htm">Joshua 11:14</a></span><br />And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a <span class="boldtext">prey</span> unto themselves; but every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any to breathe.<br /><span class="source">(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/judges/5-30.htm">Judges 5:30</a></span><br />Have they not sped? have they not divided the <span class="boldtext">prey</span>; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colors, a prey of divers colors of needlework, of divers colors of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?<br /><span class="source">(KJV WBS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/judges/8-24.htm">Judges 8:24</a></span><br />And Gideon said unto them, I would desire a request of you, that ye would give me every man the earrings of his <span class="boldtext">prey</span>. (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)<br /><span class="source">(KJV WBS YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/judges/8-25.htm">Judges 8:25</a></span><br />And they answered, We will willingly give them. And they spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the earrings of his <span class="boldtext">prey</span>.<br /><span class="source">(KJV WBS YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_samuel/14-36.htm">1 Samuel 14:36</a></span><br />And Saul saith, 'Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and we <span class="boldtext">prey</span> upon them till the light of the morning, and leave not a man of them.' And they say, 'All that is good in thine eyes do.' And the priest saith, 'Let us draw near hither unto God.'<br /><span class="source">(YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_kings/21-14.htm">2 Kings 21:14</a></span><br />I will cast off the remnant of my inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies. They will become a <span class="boldtext">prey</span> and a spoil to all their enemies;<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_chronicles/25-13.htm">2 Chronicles 25:13</a></span><br />And the sons of the troop that Amaziah hath sent back from going with him to battle -- they rush against cities of Judah, from Samaria even unto Beth-Horon, and smite of them three thousand, and seize much <span class="boldtext">prey</span>.<br /><span class="source">(YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_chronicles/28-14.htm">2 Chronicles 28:14</a></span><br />And the armed men leave the captives and the <span class="boldtext">prey</span> before the heads and all the assembly; <br /><span class="source">(YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/nehemiah/4-4.htm">Nehemiah 4:4</a></span><br />Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a <span class="boldtext">prey</span> in the land of captivity:<br /><span class="source">(KJV DBY WBS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/esther/3-13.htm">Esther 3:13</a></span><br />And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a <span class="boldtext">prey</span>.<br /><span class="source">(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/esther/8-11.htm">Esther 8:11</a></span><br />Wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, both little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a <span class="boldtext">prey</span>,<br /><span class="source">(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/esther/9-10.htm">Esther 9:10</a></span><br />the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the oppressor of the Jews, they slew; but they laid not their hands on the <span class="boldtext">prey</span>.<br /><span class="source">(DBY YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/esther/9-15.htm">Esther 9:15</a></span><br />For the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but on the <span class="boldtext">prey</span> they laid not their hand.<br /><span class="source">(KJV DBY WBS YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/esther/9-16.htm">Esther 9:16</a></span><br />But the other Jews that were in the king's provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of their foes seventy and five thousand, but they laid not their hands on the <span class="boldtext">prey</span>,<br /><span class="source">(KJV DBY WBS YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/job/4-11.htm">Job 4:11</a></span><br />The old lion perishes for lack of <span class="boldtext">prey</span>. The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad. <br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/job/9-12.htm">Job 9:12</a></span><br />Behold, he seizeth 'the <span class="boldtext">prey</span>', who can hinder him? Who will say unto him, What doest thou?<br /><span class="source">(ASV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/job/9-26.htm">Job 9:26</a></span><br />They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the <span class="boldtext">prey</span>.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/job/17-5.htm">Job 17:5</a></span><br />He who denounces his friends for a <span class="boldtext">prey</span>, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.<br /><span class="source">(WEB ASV DBY)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/job/24-5.htm">Job 24:5</a></span><br />Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a <span class="boldtext">prey</span>: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.<br /><span class="source">(KJV DBY WBS YLT RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/job/28-7.htm">Job 28:7</a></span><br />That path no bird of <span class="boldtext">prey</span> knows, neither has the falcon's eye seen it.<br /><span class="source">(WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/job/29-17.htm">Job 29:17</a></span><br />I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the <span class="boldtext">prey</span> out of his teeth.<br /><span class="source">(WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/job/38-39.htm">Job 38:39</a></span><br />"Can you hunt the <span class="boldtext">prey</span> for the lioness, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/job/38-41.htm">Job 38:41</a></span><br />Who provides for the raven his <span class="boldtext">prey</span>, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?<br /><span class="source">(WEB JPS ASV RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/job/39-29.htm">Job 39:29</a></span><br />From there he spies out the <span class="boldtext">prey</span>. His eyes see it afar off. <br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/psalms/17-12.htm">Psalms 17:12</a></span><br />He is like a lion that is greedy of his <span class="boldtext">prey</span>, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/psalms/22-13.htm">Psalms 22:13</a></span><br />They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing <span class="boldtext">prey</span> and roaring.<br /><span class="source">(WEB NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/psalms/63-10.htm">Psalms 63:10</a></span><br />They shall be given over to the power of the sword. They shall be jackal food. <br /><span class="source">(See NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/psalms/76-4.htm">Psalms 76:4</a></span><br />Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains of <span class="boldtext">prey</span>. <br /><span class="source">(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/psalms/104-21.htm">Psalms 104:21</a></span><br />The young lions roar after their <span class="boldtext">prey</span>, and seek their food from God.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/psalms/111-5.htm">Psalms 111:5</a></span><br /><span class="boldtext">Prey</span> He hath given to those fearing Him, He remembereth to the age His covenant.<br /><span class="source">(YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/psalms/124-6.htm">Psalms 124:6</a></span><br />Blessed be Yahweh, who has not given us as a <span class="boldtext">prey</span> to their teeth.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/proverbs/12-12.htm">Proverbs 12:12</a></span><br />The wicked desireth the net of evil men; But the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit .<br /><span class="source">(See JPS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/proverbs/12-27.htm">Proverbs 12:27</a></span><br />The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting; But the precious substance of men is to the diligent.<br /><span class="source">(See JPS NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/proverbs/23-28.htm">Proverbs 23:28</a></span><br />She also lieth in wait as for a <span class="boldtext">prey</span>, and increaseth the transgressors among men.<br /><span class="source">(KJV WBS YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/5-29.htm">Isaiah 5:29</a></span><br />Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, and seize their <span class="boldtext">prey</span> and carry it off, and there will be no one to deliver.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/8-1.htm">Isaiah 8:1</a></span><br />And Jehovah said unto me, Take thee a great tablet, and write upon it with the pen of a man, For Maher-shalal-hash-baz; <br /><span class="source">(See JPS YLT NAS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/10-2.htm">Isaiah 10:2</a></span><br />to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their <span class="boldtext">prey</span>!<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/10-6.htm">Isaiah 10:6</a></span><br />I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me will I give him a command to take the spoil and to take the <span class="boldtext">prey</span>, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/18-6.htm">Isaiah 18:6</a></span><br />They shall be left together unto the mountain birds of <span class="boldtext">prey</span>, and to the beasts of the earth; and the birds of prey shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.<br /><span class="source">(DBY NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/31-4.htm">Isaiah 31:4</a></span><br />For thus says Yahweh to me, "As the lion and the young lion growling over his <span class="boldtext">prey</span>, if a multitude of shepherds is called together against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them, so Yahweh of Armies will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its heights. Jeremiah<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/33-23.htm">Isaiah 33:23</a></span><br />Your rigging is untied. They couldn't strengthen the foot of their mast. They couldn't spread the sail. Then the <span class="boldtext">prey</span> of a great spoil was divided. The lame took the prey. <br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/42-22.htm">Isaiah 42:22</a></span><br />But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. They have become a <span class="boldtext">prey</span>, and no one delivers; and a spoil, and no one says,'Restore them!'<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/46-11.htm">Isaiah 46:11</a></span><br />calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country; yea, I have spoken, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed, I will also do it. <br /><span class="source">(See JPS DBY NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/49-24.htm">Isaiah 49:24</a></span><br />Shall the <span class="boldtext">prey</span> be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captives be delivered?<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/49-25.htm">Isaiah 49:25</a></span><br />But thus says Yahweh, "Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the <span class="boldtext">prey</span> of the terrible shall be delivered; for I will contend with him who contends with you, and I will save your children.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/59-15.htm">Isaiah 59:15</a></span><br />Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a <span class="boldtext">prey</span>. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/2-14.htm">Jeremiah 2:14</a></span><br />Is Israel a servant? is he a native-born slave? why is he become a <span class="boldtext">prey</span>? <br /><span class="source">(WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/12-9.htm">Jeremiah 12:9</a></span><br />Is my heritage to me as a speckled bird of <span class="boldtext">prey</span>? are the birds of prey against her all around? Go, assemble all the animals of the field, bring them to devour.<br /><span class="source">(WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/15-13.htm">Jeremiah 15:13</a></span><br />Thy strength and thy treasures For a <span class="boldtext">prey</span> I do give -- not for price, Even for all thy sins, and in all thy borders.<br /><span class="source">(YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/17-3.htm">Jeremiah 17:3</a></span><br />O My mountain in the field -- thy strength, All thy treasures -- for a <span class="boldtext">prey</span> I give, Thy high places for sin in all thy borders.<br /><span class="source">(YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/20-5.htm">Jeremiah 20:5</a></span><br />Moreover I will give all the riches of this city, and all its gains, and all the precious things of it, yes, all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies; and they shall make them a <span class="boldtext">prey</span>, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.<br /><span class="source">(WEB ASV DBY)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/21-9.htm">Jeremiah 21:9</a></span><br />He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes out, and passes over to the Chaldeans who besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be to him for a <span class="boldtext">prey</span>.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/30-16.htm">Jeremiah 30:16</a></span><br />Therefore all those who devour you shall be devoured; and all your adversaries, everyone of them, shall go into captivity; and those who despoil you shall be a spoil, and all who <span class="boldtext">prey</span> on you will I give for a prey.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/38-2.htm">Jeremiah 38:2</a></span><br />Thus says Yahweh, He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes forth to the Chaldeans shall live, and his life shall be to him for a <span class="boldtext">prey</span>, and he shall live.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/39-18.htm">Jeremiah 39:18</a></span><br />For I will surely save you, and you shall not fall by the sword, but your life shall be for a <span class="boldtext">prey</span> to you; because you have put your trust in me, says Yahweh.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/45-5.htm">Jeremiah 45:5</a></span><br />Do you seek great things for yourself? Don't seek them; for, behold, I will bring evil on all flesh, says Yahweh; but your life will I give to you for a <span class="boldtext">prey</span> in all places where you go.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-10.htm">Jeremiah 50:10</a></span><br />Chaldea shall be a <span class="boldtext">prey</span>: all who prey on her shall be satisfied, says Yahweh.<br /><span class="source">(WEB ASV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ezekiel/7-21.htm">Ezekiel 7:21</a></span><br />I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a <span class="boldtext">prey</span>, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane it.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ezekiel/13-21.htm">Ezekiel 13:21</a></span><br />And I have torn your kerchiefs, And delivered My people out of your hand, And they are no more in your hand for a <span class="boldtext">prey</span>, And ye have known that I 'am' Jehovah.<br /><span class="source">(YLT RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ezekiel/19-3.htm">Ezekiel 19:3</a></span><br />She brought up one of her cubs: he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the <span class="boldtext">prey</span>; he devoured men.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ezekiel/19-6.htm">Ezekiel 19:6</a></span><br />He went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the <span class="boldtext">prey</span>; he devoured men.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-25.htm">Ezekiel 22:25</a></span><br />There is a conspiracy of her prophets in its midst, like a roaring lion ravening the <span class="boldtext">prey</span>: they have devoured souls; they take treasure and precious things; they have made her widows many in its midst.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-27.htm">Ezekiel 22:27</a></span><br />Her princes in its midst are like wolves ravening the <span class="boldtext">prey</span>, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ezekiel/26-12.htm">Ezekiel 26:12</a></span><br />They shall make a spoil of your riches, and make a <span class="boldtext">prey</span> of your merchandise; and they shall break down your walls, and destroy your pleasant houses; and they shall lay your stones and your timber and your dust in the midst of the waters.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ezekiel/29-19.htm">Ezekiel 29:19</a></span><br />Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he shall carry off her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her <span class="boldtext">prey</span>; and it shall be the wages for his army.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ezekiel/34-8.htm">Ezekiel 34:8</a></span><br />As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely because my sheep became a <span class="boldtext">prey</span>, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn't feed my sheep;<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ezekiel/34-22.htm">Ezekiel 34:22</a></span><br />therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a <span class="boldtext">prey</span>; and I will judge between sheep and sheep.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ezekiel/34-28.htm">Ezekiel 34:28</a></span><br />They shall no more be a <span class="boldtext">prey</span> to the nations, neither shall the animals of the earth devour them; but they shall dwell securely, and none shall make them afraid.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ezekiel/36-4.htm">Ezekiel 36:4</a></span><br />therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which are become a <span class="boldtext">prey</span> and derision to the residue of the nations that are all around;<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ezekiel/36-5.htm">Ezekiel 36:5</a></span><br />therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the nations, and against all Edom, that have appointed my land to themselves for a possession with the joy of all their heart, with despite of soul, to cast it out for a <span class="boldtext">prey</span>.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ezekiel/38-12.htm">Ezekiel 38:12</a></span><br />to take the spoil and to take the <span class="boldtext">prey</span>; to turn your hand against the waste places that are now inhabited, and against the people who are gathered out of the nations, who have gotten livestock and goods, who dwell in the middle of the earth.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ezekiel/38-13.htm">Ezekiel 38:13</a></span><br />Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions of it, shall tell you, Have you come to take the spoil? have you assembled your company to take the <span class="boldtext">prey</span>? to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great spoil?<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ezekiel/39-4.htm">Ezekiel 39:4</a></span><br />Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the peoples that are with thee: I have given thee to be meat for the birds of <span class="boldtext">prey</span> of every wing, and to the beasts of the field.<br /><span class="source">(DBY RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/daniel/11-24.htm">Daniel 11:24</a></span><br />In time of security shall he come even on the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them <span class="boldtext">prey</span>, and spoil, and substance: yes, he shall devise his devices against the strongholds, even for a time.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/hosea/9-13.htm">Hosea 9:13</a></span><br />I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place; but Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer.<br /><span class="source">(See RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/amos/3-4.htm">Amos 3:4</a></span><br />Will a lion roar in the thicket, when he has no <span class="boldtext">prey</span>? Does a young lion cry out of his den, if he has caught nothing?<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/amos/3-5.htm">Amos 3:5</a></span><br />Doth a bird fall into a snare of the earth, And there is no gin for it? 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