Jer 4:7, 50:44-46, Zec 11:3 | ESV | STEP | A lion has gone up from his thicket , a destroyer of nations has set out ; he has gone out from his place to make your land a waste ; your cities will be ruins without inhabitant .

Jeremiah 4:7

7 ^aA lion has gone up from his thicket,
a destroyer of nations has set out;
he has gone out from his place
to make your land a waste;
your cities will be ruins
^bwithout inhabitant.

Jeremiah 50:44-46

44 ^c“Behold, like a lion coming up from the thicket of the Jordan against a perennial pasture, I will suddenly make them run away from her, and I will appoint over her whomever I choose. For who is like me? Who will summon me? What shepherd ^dcan stand before me? 45 Therefore hear ^ethe plan that the Lord has made against Babylon, ^fand the purposes that he has formed against the land of the Chaldeans: ^gSurely the little ones of their flock shall be dragged away; surely their fold shall be appalled at their fate. 46 ^hAt the sound of the capture of Babylon the earth shall tremble, and her cry shall be heard among the nations.”

Zechariah 11:3

3 The sound of ⁱthe wail of ^jthe shepherds,
for their glory is ruined!
The sound of the roar of ^kthe lions,
^lfor the thicket of the Jordan is ruined!