Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.
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Gill's Exposition
Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them,.... Meaning King Nebuchadnezzar out of Babylon, a place full of people, and so comparable to a forest, as the king is to a lion, for his strength,…
Barnes' Notes
Evenings - See the margin. From its habit of skulking about in the twilight the wolf is often called the “evening wolf” Hab 1:8; Zep 3:3, but the word used here means a sandy desert. Leopard -…
Here is, I. A challenge to produce any one right honest man, or at least any considerable number of such, in Jerusalem, Jer 5:1. Jerusalem had become like the old world, in which all flesh had…
Cambridge Bible
For the danger from actual wild beasts in Palestine cp. 1Sa 17:34; 1Ki 13:24; 1Ki 20:36. Here the description "spoiling," "watching over" (i.e. lying in wait) shews that the passage is metaphorical.…
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