Jeremiah 25:38
He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger. He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.
This belongs to the prophecies of Jeremiah 25, given very soon after the beginning of the Babylonian captivity concerning the desolations of Jerusalem. It is part of a clearly stated sentence of doom whose awful meaning the multitudes who heard could scarcely grasp. God illustrates its meaning by the draining of a cup filled with the wine of divine wrath, to be drunk first by Jerusalem and the cities of Judah and their kings, and then by Pharaoh king of Egypt with his servants and princes and people and by many other nations of earth until God's purpose is fulfilled.
It was among the testimonies recorded in the books that Daniel prayerfully studied in the first year of Darius the Mede, more than sixty years after they were written. Its meaning is plain that God would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem, and its promise of the return of Israel is sure.