¹⁵ against every high tower,^(A)
against every fortified wall,

⁷ 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)

⁶ Therefore, a lion from the forest will strike them down.^(A)
A wolf from an arid plain will ravage them.
A leopard^(B) keeps watch over their cities.
Anyone who leaves them will be torn to pieces
because their rebellious acts are many,^(C)
their unfaithful deeds numerous.^(D)

¹⁷ Israel is a stray lamb, chased by lions.^(A)
The first who devoured him was the king of Assyria;
the last one who crushed his bones
was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.^(B)

³⁸ They will roar together like young lions;
they will growl like lion cubs.

⁶ For a nation has invaded My land,^(A)
powerful and without number;
its teeth are the teeth of a lion,
and it has the fangs of a lioness.^(B)