38. As the lion. The “Lamb of God” is also “the Lion of the tribe of Juda” (Rev. 5:5). A “lion” brings to mind not only a picture of kingly majesty but also a graphic representation of destructive power, such as that which the Lord will use when He performs His “strange act” of destroying the wicked (see on Isa. 28:21). Here Jeremiah takes up again the figure of 30, which typifies the Lord’s “fierce anger” as the roaring of a lion (see Amos 3:8) that leaves his “covert” in the forest to seek his prey.
Fierceness. charon, “burning”; always in the sense of “anger,” and used only of God in the .
Oppressor. yonah, the participle of yanah, “to oppress.”