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Hosea 13:8
Like a bear robbed of her cubs I will attack them,
from God’s Anger against Israel, Hosea 13:1-8
What it says

Like a bear robbed of her cubs, God will attack, tear open, and devour them like a wild beast.

What it is doing

This verse intensifies the judgment by showing God as an unstoppable destroyer of the unfaithful.

In context

1When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; 2Now they sin more and more 3Therefore they will be like the morning mist, 4Yet I am the LORD your God 5I knew you in the wilderness, 6When they had pasture, 7So like a lion I will pounce on them; 8Like a bear robbed of her cubs I will attack them,