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The lion is come up from his thicket, i.e. Nebuchadnezzar, called here a lion from his fierceness and strength, Pro_30:30; a metaphor; especially in this expedition; see Isa_5:27-29 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.
The destroyer of the Gentiles; another description of the same person, of whose destroying armies the nations have had woeful experience, Isa_14:16,17, called the hammer of the whole earth, Jer_50:23: q.d. And how shall you think to escape him?
Is on his way, i.e. as it is expressed in the next clause, he is gone forth from his place, he is already upon his march.
To make thy land desolate, i.e. with a resolution so to do.
Shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant, i.e. as places uninhabited soon lie waste, and are overgrown with grass, as the notation of the word seems to import.