Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 4:7

7 The lion is come up from his thicket , and the destroyer of the gentiles is on his way , he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate ; and thy cities shall be laid wast, without an inhabitant .

i. e. Nebuchadnezzar called here a Lion from his fierceness, and strength, Prov. 30.30. A metaphor especially in this expedition, see Isa. 5.27, 28, 29. shall come up from Babylon where his chief seat is, Dan. 4.30. as Lions are principally among the thickets of the Forest, in Coverts; this place being so remote, and hid from them that they least expected trouble to arise from thence.

Another description of the same person, of whose destroying armies the Nations have had woful experience, Isa. 14.16, 17. called the hammer of the whole Earth, chap. 50.23. q. d. and how shall you think to escape him?

i. e. As it is expressed in the next clause, he is gone forth from his place, he is already upon his march.

i. e. With a resolution so to do.

i. e. As places uninhabited, soon ly wast, and are overgrown with grass, as the notation of the word seems to import.

Marginal references: Dan. 7.4.; chap. 2.15.