“He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.”
The final verse—that the lion has left his covert because the land has become a waste because of the burning anger of the LORD and because of His fierce anger—uses animal imagery to show nature responding to divine judgment. The lion, normally at rest, is forced out by the desolation. The burning and fierce anger emphasize the intensity of divine judgment. The verse ends the chapter by showing that the entire creation feels the effects of God's wrath.
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