A powerful nation with countless troops has invaded our land. They have the teeth and jaws of powerful lions.
flowing streams into scorched land, and fruitful fields into beds of salt.
others are so greedy that they gobble up the poor and homeless.
and to the happy homes in Jerusalem. The land of my people is covered with thorns.
Enemy soldiers will cover Judah like a flood reaching up to your neck. But God is with us. He will spread his wings and protect our land.
and you will have to leave the land of the LORD. Some of you will go to Egypt; others will go to Assyria and eat unclean food.
I, the LORD your God, will make up for the losses caused by those swarms and swarms of locusts I sent to attack you.