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Clearly symbolic wilderness twilight tableau: roaring lion on rock at left and wolves among bare picked-clean ground at right, no humans transforming.
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Zephaniah 3:3

Lions and Evening Wolves

From the Oppressing City to Songs of Restoration · Zephaniah 3

Story guide: The lion and wolves are the verse's metaphors for officials and judges, not literal animals in Jerusalem.

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3Her officials within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves that leave nothing for the morning.

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