UYeremiya 5:6

Izhibhalo Ezingcwele

6 Ngenxa yoko iyababulala ingonyama yasehlathini, iyabadlavula ingcuka yasezinkqantosini, ingwe ilalela imizi yabo; bonke abo baphuma kuyo bayaqwengwa; ngokuba luninzi ukreqo lwabo, kuninzi ukuphamba kwabo.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a lion: Jeremiah 2:15, Jeremiah 4:7, Jeremiah 25:38, Jeremiah 49:19, Ezekiel 14:16-21, Daniel 7:4, Hosea 5:14, Hosea 13:7, Hosea 13:8, Amos 5:18, Amos 5:19, Nahum 2:11, Nahum 2:12

and a wolf: Psalms 104:20, Ezekiel 22:27, Habakkuk 1:8, Zephaniah 3:3

evenings: or, deserts

a leopard: Daniel 7:6, Hosea 13:7, Revelation 13:2

because: Jeremiah 2:17, Jeremiah 2:19, Jeremiah 9:12-14, Jeremiah 14:7, Jeremiah 16:10-12, Jeremiah 30:24, Numbers 32:14, Ezra 9:6, Ezra 10:10, Isaiah 59:12, Lamentations 1:5, Ezekiel 16:25, Ezekiel 23:19

increased: Heb. strong

Reciprocal: Genesis 49:27 - at night 2 Kings 17:25 - the Lord sent Jeremiah 4:16 - watchers Jeremiah 15:8 - the mother Jeremiah 19:4 - they have Jeremiah 20:8 - I cried Jeremiah 30:14 - because Jeremiah 30:15 - for the Jeremiah 50:17 - the lions Lamentations 3:11 - pulled Hosea 4:16 - slideth Hosea 14:4 - heal Micah 6:12 - the rich

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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, fierceness, and cruelty; and who came from thence, besieged and took Jerusalem; and who not only slew their young men with the sword, but also the king's sons, and the princes and nobles of Judah,

2 Chronicles 36:17

and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them; which, having sought for its prey all the day, or not daring to go out for any, is hungry, raging and furious, and tears and destroys whatever it meets with; see Zephaniah 3:3, so the Targum and Kimchi understand it of such a wolf; but Jarchi and Ben Melech interpret it, "a wolf of the desert", or deserts; as the word q will bear to be rendered; one that frequents desert places, and rages about in the wilderness; as the king of Babylon with his army did among the wilderness of the people of the nations about him, and at length spoiled Judea, and laid it desolate:

a leopard shall watch over their cities; the same enemies, who are compared to watchers, and to keepers of a field, Jeremiah 4:16. Kimchi interprets the lion of a king, that being the king among beasts; the wolf, of his army; and the leopard, of the princes of the army; and so the Targum,

"wherefore a king with his army shall come up against them, as a lion out of the forest; and the people, who are strong as the wolves of the evening, shall slay them; and the rulers, who are mighty as the leopard, shall make a prey of them, watching over their cities;''

but Jarchi applies them to the several monarchies; by the lion, he understands the kingdom of Babylon; by the wolf, the kingdom of the Medes; and by the leopard, the kingdom of Greece; and so Jerom:

everyone that goes out thence; from any of the cities of Judea, watched by the enemy:

shall be torn in pieces; by those beasts of prey. Jarchi adds, by the Persians; the reason of all which follows, and shows it to be a righteous judgment of God upon them:

because their transgressions are many: their rebellions against God, their violations of his righteous law, were not a few, but many; God had bore long with them, and they had abused his patience and longsuffering; and therefore now he determines to punish them by such instruments:

and their backslidings are increased; though he had so often, and so kindly and tenderly, invited them to return unto him, Jeremiah 3:12.

q זאב ערבות "lupus desertorum", Montanus; "lupus solitudinum", Calvin; "deserta incolaus", Pagninuns, Vatablus; "lupus camporum", Schmidt.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Evenings - See the margin. From its habit of skulking about in the twilight the wolf is often called the “evening wolf” Habakkuk 1:8; Zephaniah 3:3, but the word used here means a sandy desert.

Leopard - panther.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 5:6. Wherefore a lion — Nebuchadnezzar, according to the general opinion; who is called here a lion for his courage and violence, a bear for his rapaciousness, and a leopard for his activity. Dahler supposes the Scythians to be intended, both here and in Jeremiah 4:7.