“Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion’s whelp, and none made them afraid?”
Where is the den of the lions, the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion goes and the lioness, with the lion's cubs, and none to disturb them?—the question addresses Nineveh's now-absent ferocity and power. The lion imagery, associated with Assyrian royal symbolism and military might, evokes the irony of the once-fearsome predator rendered helpless and scattered. The rhetorical question presupposes the answer: there is no such place anymore.
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