26 The settlers spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, “The nations that you have deported and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the requirements of the God of the land. Therefore He has sent lions among them that are killing them because the people don’t know the requirements of the God of the land.”

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A lion has gone up from his thicket;(A)
a destroyer of nations has set out.
He has left his lair
to make your land a waste.
Your cities will be reduced to uninhabited ruins.(B)

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38 He has left His den like a lion,
for their land has become a desolation
because of the sword[a] of the oppressor,(A)
because of His burning anger.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 25:38 Some Hb mss, LXX, Tg; other Hb mss read burning

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