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Jeremiah 25:38 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 25 · verse 38
He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.Jeremiah 25:38 · King James Version
Jeremiah 25:38 in context
36A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the principal of the flock, shall be heard: for the LORD hath spoiled their pasture.
37And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
38He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- fiercenesschârôwna burning of angerH2740 →
- oppressoryânâhto rage or be violentH3238 →
- forsakenʻâzabto loosenH5800 →
- desolateshammâhruinH8047 →
- covertçôka hutH5520 →
- lionkᵉphîyra villageH3715 →
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We have, in these verses, a further description of those terrible desolations which the king of Babylon with his armies should make in all the countries and nations round about Jerusalem. In Jerusalem God had erected his temple;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 30-38