Hosea 13:8
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Like a bear robbed of her cubs I will attack them, and I will tear open their chests. There I will devour them like a lion, like a wild beast would tear them apart.
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He continued, “You know your father and his men. They are mighty men, and as fierce as a wild bear robbed of her cubs. Moreover, your father is a man of war who will not spend the night with the troops.
Their roaring is like that of a lion; they roar like young lions. They growl and seize their prey; they carry it away from deliverance.
Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:
It is better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool in his folly.
Is not My inheritance to Me like a speckled bird of prey with other birds of prey circling against her? Go, gather all the beasts of the field; bring them to devour her.
Come, all you beasts of the field; eat greedily, all you beasts of the forest.
The boar from the forest ravages it, and the creatures of the field feed upon it.