Isaiah 5:29
Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it. Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.
Isaiah 5 portrays Israel as a carefully tended vineyard that yielded only wild grapes. Because of that rebellion God would break down its wall, leave it exposed to trampling, and withhold rain. This is judgment for unfaithfulness, not an unconditional promise of restoration.
The verse belongs to chapters 1 to 5, which set forth Judah's awful backsliding in a series of woes against departing from God. Those woes warn of the sure consequences of following Israel's unfaithful example. The backsliding condition of God's people described in these chapters serves as a type of last-day apostasies.
The roaring power that seizes its prey and carries it away safe with none able to deliver is the Chaldeans of Babylon, picturing Babylon as a swift and powerful conqueror. The same lion-like seizing and carrying off beyond rescue also predicts an upheaval in which the poor, driven to wrath by oppression, rise against the wealthy and seize their possessions. That violence comes as the coming consequence of unjust wealth and oppression.