UYeremiya 4:7

Izhibhalo Ezingcwele

7 Kunyuka ingonyama iphuma entshinyeleni yayo yehlathi, kunduluka umonakalisi weentlanga; uphuma endaweni yakhe, ukuze aliphanzise ilizwe lakho, imizi yakho yenziwe imiwewe, ingabi nabemi.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

lion: Jeremiah 5:6, Jeremiah 25:38, Jeremiah 49:19, Jeremiah 50:17, Jeremiah 50:44, 2 Kings 24:1, 2 Kings 25:1, Daniel 7:4

destroyer: Jeremiah 25:9, Jeremiah 27:8, Ezekiel 21:19-21, Ezekiel 26:7-10, Ezekiel 30:10, Ezekiel 30:11, Daniel 5:19

to: Jeremiah 2:15, Jeremiah 9:11, Jeremiah 26:9, Jeremiah 33:10, Jeremiah 34:22, Isaiah 1:7, Isaiah 5:9, Isaiah 6:11

Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:31 - And I will make Job 4:11 - old lion Psalms 76:4 - mountains Psalms 80:13 - The boar Isaiah 5:29 - roaring Isaiah 21:8 - General Isaiah 24:1 - maketh the Isaiah 44:1 - now Jeremiah 4:27 - The Jeremiah 5:17 - they shall impoverish Jeremiah 22:7 - I Jeremiah 44:2 - a desolation Jeremiah 46:1 - against Ezekiel 7:24 - I will bring Ezekiel 12:20 - General Ezekiel 12:28 - There shall Ezekiel 15:6 - General Ezekiel 21:31 - and skilful Ezekiel 32:2 - Thou art like Micah 5:1 - gather Nahum 2:11 - the dwelling Habakkuk 1:9 - for Zephaniah 1:13 - their goods

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The lion is come up from his thicket,.... Meaning Nebuchadnezzar s, from Babylon, who is compared to a lion for his strength, fierceness, and cruelty; see Jeremiah 50:17 so the Roman emperor is called a lion, 2 Timothy 4:17, agreeably to this the Targum paraphrases it,

"a king is gone from his fortress;''

or tower; and the Syriac version,

"a certain most powerful king is about to go up as a lion out of his wood:''

and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he who had conquered and destroyed other nations not a few, and these mighty and strong; and therefore the Jews could not expect but to be destroyed by him. This tyrant was a type of antichrist, whose name is Apollyon, a destroyer of the nations of the earth, Revelation 9:11

he is gone forth from his place, to make thy land desolate; from Babylon, where his royal palace was, in order to lay waste the land of Judea; and he is represented as being come out, and on the road with this view, to strike the inhabitants of Judea with the greater terror, and to hasten their flight, their destruction being determined and certain:

and thy cities shall be laid waste without an inhabitant; they shall become so utterly desolate, that there should be none dwelling in them, partly by reason of the multitudes of the slain, and partly by reason of multitudes that should flee; and should be laid waste to such a degree, that they should be covered with grass growing upon them; which is the signification of the word t here used, according to R. Joseph Kimchi.

s So T. Bab. Megilia, fol. 11. 1. & Sanhedrin. fol 94. 2. t תצינה "gramine succrescente obducantur quidam" in Gataker.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Rather, A “lion”... a “destroyer” of nations: a metaphor descriptive of the impending calamity. A lion is just rousing himself from his lair, but no common one. It is destroyer, not of men, but of nations.

Is on his way - literally, “has broken up his encampment.” Jeremiah uses a military term strictly referring to the striking of tents in preparation for the march.

Without an inhabitant - The final stage of destruction, actually reached in the utter depopulation of Judaea consequent upon Gedaliah’s murder.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 4:7. The lion is come up — Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon. "The king (Nebuchadnezzar) is come up from his tower." - Targum.

The destroyer of the Gentiles — Of the nations: of all the people who resisted his authority. He destroyed them all.