What does the Bible say about valley of the dragons?
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The Bible uses the valley or haunt of dragons as vivid imagery of desolation, mourning, and the judgment of God, while also pointing to His final victory over evil. Psalm 44:19 and Job 30:29 portray places of deep affliction and lament, and Isaiah 34:13, Isaiah 35:7, Jeremiah 51:37, and Malachi 1:3 describe lands made waste under divine judgment. Micah 1:8 uses the creatures' cries to express grief over sin. Yet Scripture also identifies the dragon with Satan in Revelation 12:3-4 and Revelation 20:2. Isaiah 27:1 promises that the Lord will punish the serpent, assuring believers that Christ's kingdom will finally overcome every enemy.
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- Psalms 44:19 10 votes
Though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death.
- Isaiah 34:13 9 votes
Thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses of it; and it shall be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.
- Job 30:29 8 votes
I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches.
- Jeremiah 51:37 8 votes
Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
- Micah 1:8 6 votes
For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will howl like the jackals, And moan like the daughters of owls.
- Isaiah 35:7 6 votes
The glowing sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water: in the habitation of jackals, where they lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
- Revelation 12:3-4 5 votes
[3] Another sign was seen in heaven. Behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven crowns. [4] His tail drew one third of the stars of the sky, and threw them to the earth. The dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child.
- Revelation 20:2 5 votes
He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years,
- Isaiah 27:1 4 votes
In that day Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will kill the monster that is in the sea.
- Malachi 1:3 4 votes
but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness."
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