Jeremiah 4:7 meaning and explanation
A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to lay waste your land. Your cities will be reduced to ruins and lie uninhabited.
Jeremiah 4:7, Berean Standard Bible
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The LORD speaks through Jeremiah to Judah and Jerusalem before Babylon's invasion. The lion leaving its thicket pictures a sudden, unstoppable attack, and the destroyer of nations is almost certainly Babylon, the empire God permits to come from the north.
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