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Therefore a lion out of the forest will kill them. A wolf of the evenings will destroy them. A leopard will watch against their cities. Everyone who goes out there will be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many and their backsliding has increased.
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Verse 6. Lion. Nabuchodonosor.—Wolf. Cambyses, ( Calmet.) and leopard. Epiphanes. Bible.—The Chaldees, Persians and Greeks afflicted them. Saint Jerome—The first beast may designate Nabuc: the second Nabuzardon: the third, Alexander or Epiphanes. Worthington.
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