God had before compared himself to a lion, Jeremiah 25:30; here he declares himself to be about to move like a lion, who when he goeth out to seek his prey, leaveth his covert: see Jeremiah 50:44. The effects of this rising up of God out of his covert is the desolation of the land through the fierceness of the enemy, caused from the fierce anger of God now ready to be poured out upon this people.
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Jeremiah 25:38
38 He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolatee because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.