“The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.”
The lion has torn enough for his cubs and strangled prey for his lionesses; he has filled his caves with kill, and his dens with prey—depicting Nineveh's historical brutality and conquest in animalistic terms. This verse catalogs Assyrian imperialism as predatory violence; the accumulated bodies in 'dens' represent the victims of Assyrian expansion. The imagery morally evaluates Nineveh's conquests as rapine and massacre.
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