Jeremia 5:6

Lutherbibel

Darum wird sie auch der Löwe, der aus dem Walde kommt, zerreißen, und der Wolf aus der Wüste wird sie verderben, und der Parder wird um ihre Städte lauern; alle, die daselbst herausgehen, wird er fressen. Denn ihrer Sünden sind zuviel, und sie bleiben verstockt in ihrem Ungehorsam.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Darum schlägt sie der Löwe aus dem Wald, überfällt sie der Steppenwolf; der Pardel lauert an ihren Städten, so daß, wer sie verläßt, zerrissen wird; denn ihrer Übertretungen sind viele, und groß sind ihre Abweichungen!

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.