Jeremiah 4:7

Like a lion that has come up from its lair ¹  the one who destroys nations has set out from his home base. ²  He is coming out to lay your land waste. Your cities will become ruins and lie uninhabited.

2Ki 24:1; 2Ki 25:1; Isa 1:7; Isa 5:9; Isa 6:11; Jer 2:15; Jer 5:6; Jer 9:11; Jer 25:9; Jer 25:38; Jer 26:9; Jer 27:8; Jer 33:10; Jer 34:22; Jer 49:19; Jer 50:17,44; Eze 21:19-21; Eze 26:7-10; Eze 30:10,11; Da 5:19; Da 7:4

¹ tn Heb “A lion has left its lair.” The metaphor is turned into a simile for clarification. The word translated “lair” has also been understood to refer to a hiding place. However, it appears to be cognate in meaning to the word translated “lair” in Ps 10:9; Jer 25:38, a word which also refers to the abode of the Lord in Ps 76:3.

² tn Heb “his place.”