Jeremiah 5:6

Overview - Jeremiah 5
The judgments of God upon the Jews, for their perverseness;
for their adultery;
10 for their impiety;
15 for their worship of idols;
19 for their contempt of God;
25 and for their great corruption in the civil state;
30 and ecclesiastical.
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Jeremiah 5:6  (King James Version)
Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.
 


a lion
2:15 4:7 25:38 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 9:12-14 14:7 16:10-12 30:24 Numbers 32:14 ; Ezra 9:6 ; 10:10
Isaiah 59:12 ; Lamentations 1:5 ; Ezekiel 16:25 ; 23:19

increased
Hebrew strong.