Albert Barnes Commentary Jeremiah 2:15

"The young lions have roared upon him, and yelled; and they have made his land waste: his cities are burned up, without inhabitant." — Jeremiah 2:15 (ASV)

Upon him - Rather, against him. Israel has run away from his master’s house, but only to find himself exposed to the beasts of prey in the wilderness.

They made his land waste - The prophet points to the actual results of Israel’s state—a state that continued until the multiplication of wild beasts rendered human life unsafe (2 Kings 17:25), but the Assyrian invasions had reduced Judaea to almost as sad a state.

Burned - Others render, “leveled to the ground.”