38 Like a lion(A) he will leave his lair,
    and their land will become desolate(B)
because of the sword[a] of the oppressor(C)
    and because of the Lord’s fierce anger.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 25:38 Some Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint (see also 46:16 and 50:16); most Hebrew manuscripts anger

14 For I will be like a lion(A) to Ephraim,
    like a great lion to Judah.
I will tear them to pieces(B) and go away;
    I will carry them off, with no one to rescue them.(C)

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So I will be like a lion(A) to them,
    like a leopard I will lurk by the path.

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12 The lion killed(A) enough for his cubs
    and strangled the prey for his mate,
filling his lairs(B) with the kill
    and his dens with the prey.(C)

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