Therefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the desert shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: everyone that goes out there shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Lion. Nabuchodonosor.
Wolf. Cambyses, (Calmet) and leopard. Epiphanes. (Haydock)
The Chaldeans, Persians and Greeks afflict them. (St. Jerome)
The first beast may designate Nabuc: the second Nabuzardon: the third, Alexander or Epiphanes. (Worthington)