“Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?”
Does a lion roar in the forest when he has no prey? Does a young lion cry out from his den if he has taken nothing? The predator metaphor intensifies the warning: a lion only roars when it has prey in its grasp or is making a kill. Applied to the LORD, who is compared to a lion in 1:2 and 3:8, this means that God's roar through the prophet signals that prey has already been found — judgment is not a possibility but a certainty. The doubling (lion and young lion) adds rhetorical weight, brooking no evasion.
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