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The Beasts are Invaders
Commentators agree that the lion, wolf, and leopard are not literal animals but powerful metaphors. They represent the fierce, ravenous, and cunning nature of the human enemies, specifically the Babylonians, whom God would use to execute His judgment. This imagery was meant to convey the terrifying and inescapable nature of the coming invasion.
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Jeremiah
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Albert Barnes
On Jeremiah 5:6
18th Century
Theologian
Evenings - See the margin. From its habit of skulking about in the twilight, the wolf is often called the “evening wolf” ([Reference Habakku…
Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 5:6
19th Century
Bishop
A lion out of the forest.—The imagery is vivid in itself. The three forms of animal ferocity, lion, wolf, leopard—representing, perhaps, t…
Charles Spurgeon
On Jeremiah 5:5–6
19th Century
Preacher
But these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
Therefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf …
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John Calvin
On Jeremiah 5:6
16th Century
Theologian
Here, finally, God shows that he was moderate in his judgments, so that the wicked in vain charged him, as is usual with them, with too much severi…
John Gill
On Jeremiah 5:6
17th Century
Pastor
Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them
Meaning King Nebuchadnezzar out of Babylon, a place full of peopl…
Matthew Henry
On Jeremiah 5:1–9
17th Century
Minister
None could be found who behaved as upright and godly men. But the Lord saw the true character of the people through all their disguises.
The…