Jeremiah 4:7
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to lay waste your land. Your cities will be reduced to ruins and lie uninhabited.

Young's Literal Translation
Gone up hath a lion from his thicket, And a destroyer of nations hath journeyed, He hath come forth from his place To make thy land become a desolation, Thy cities are laid waste, without inhabitant.

King James Bible
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 waste, without an inhabitant.

Hebrew
A lion
אַרְיֵה֙ (’ar·yêh)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 738: A lion

has gone up
עָלָ֤ה (‘ā·lāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5927: To ascend, in, actively

from his thicket,
מִֽסֻּבְּכ֔וֹ (mis·sub·bə·ḵōw)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5441: A thicket

and a destroyer
וּמַשְׁחִ֣ית (ū·maš·ḥîṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular construct
Strong's 7843: Perhaps to go to ruin

of nations
גּוֹיִ֔ם (gō·w·yim)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 1471: A foreign nation, a Gentile, a troop of animals, a flight of locusts

has set out.
נָסַ֖ע (nā·sa‘)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5265: To pull up, the tent-pins, start on a, journey

He has left
יָצָ֣א (yā·ṣā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3318: To go, bring, out, direct and proxim

his lair
מִמְּקֹמ֑וֹ (mim·mə·qō·mōw)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 4725: A standing, a spot, a condition

to lay
לָשׂ֤וּם (lā·śūm)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 7760: Put -- to put, place, set

waste
לְשַׁמָּ֔ה (lə·šam·māh)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8047: Ruin, consternation

to your land.
אַרְצֵךְ֙ (’ar·ṣêḵ)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land

Your cities
עָרַ֥יִךְ (‘ā·ra·yiḵ)
Noun - feminine plural construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 5892: Excitement

will be reduced
מֵאֵ֥ין (mê·’ên)
Preposition-m | Adverb
Strong's 369: A non-entity, a negative particle

to ruins
תִּצֶּ֖ינָה (tiṣ·ṣe·nāh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine plural
Strong's 5327: To go forth, to be expelled, desolate, to lay waste, to quarrel

and lie uninhabited.
יוֹשֵֽׁב׃ (yō·wō·šêḇ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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