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)

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.