The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
Lions - the Babylonian princes (Jeremiah 4:7; cf. Amos 3:4). The disaster from the Babylonians in the fourth year of Jehoiakim's reign, and again three years later when, after having been Nebuchadnezzar's servant for those three years, relying on Egypt, he revolted from Nebuchadnezzar, is here referred to (Jeremiah 46:2; 2 Kings 24:1-2).