The young lions; understand the Assyrians, Babylonians, and Egyptians, &c., called lions from their fierceness, and young from their strength. See this Jeremiah 4:7, Jeremiah 50:17. Roared upon him, and yelled; noting the terrible voice that the lion puts forth, either in the seizing the prey, some say in sport, Lamentations 2:7; or the devouring it, Isaiah 5:29. A metaphor, noting the cruelty of the enemy, Psalms 74:4. Burned without inhabitant, i.e. so consumed and wasted that they are uninhabitable, or shortly shall so consume and waste them. See Jeremiah 2:14.
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Jeremiah 2:15
15 The young lions roared upon him, and yelled,d and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.