They are foolish;
For athey do not know the way of the Lord,
The judgment of their God.
For athey have known the way of the Lord,
The judgment of their God.”
But these have altogether bbroken the yoke
And burst the bonds.
bA wolf of the deserts shall destroy them;
cA leopard will watch over their cities.
Everyone who goes out from there shall be torn in pieces,
Because their transgressions are many;
Their backslidings have increased.
Your children have forsaken Me
And asworn by those bthat are not gods.
cWhen I had fed them to the full,
Then they committed adultery
And assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses.
“And shall I not aavenge Myself on such a nation as this?
But do not1 make a acomplete end.
Take away her branches,
For they are not the Lord’s.
Have dealt very treacherously with Me,” says the Lord.
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Jeremiah 5:6
A lion - Nebuchadnezzar and the Chaldean army are here pointed at under the metaphor of beasts of prey of three kinds; compared to a lion, which denotes his great power, courage, and pride. A wolf - For their greediness and unsatiableness. A leopard - The Chaldean army is compared to a leopard, not for its speed only, but for its vigilancy and subtilty.
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