“Hear that noise!
Listen!
It is coming!
There is a great commotion
From the land of the north.
They want
To make the cities of Judah
A desolation,
A lair of jackals.”
Jeremiah reminds people that the attack is coming from the north. If they listened carefully, they could hear them coming. They intended to make Judah a place of desolation where only wild jackal dogs lived. This concept of a lair of jackals appeared often in his presentations.
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