Hosea 13:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ I will fall upon them like a bear robbed of her cubs and will tear open the covering of their heart; there I will devour them like a lion, as a wild animal would mangle them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ I will meet them like a bear that is robbed of her cubs, and I will rend the covering of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lioness, as a wild beast would tear them.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart; and there will I devour them like a lioness; the wild beast shall tear them.

Common English Bible

⁸ I will fall upon them like a bear robbed of her cubs, and I will tear open the covering of their hearts. I will devour them like a lion, as a wild animal would eat them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ I will run to meet them like a bear that has been robbed of her young, and I will split open the middle of their liver. And I will devour them there like a lion; the beast of the field will tear them apart.

Hosea 13:8 Cross References

2 Samuel 17:8

Hushai continued, “You know that your father and his men are warriors and that they are enraged, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Besides, your father is expert in war; he will not spend the night with the troops.

Jeremiah 12:9

Is the hawk hungry for my heritage? Are the vultures all around her? Go, assemble all the wild animals; bring them to devour her.

Isaiah 56:9

All you wild animals, all you wild animals in the forest, come to devour!

Isaiah 5:29

Their roaring is like a lion; like young lions they roar; they growl and seize their prey; they carry it off, and no one can rescue.

Proverbs 17:12

Better to meet a she-bear robbed of its cubs than to confront a fool immersed in folly.

Psalm 80:13

The boar from the forest ravages it, and all that move in the field feed on it.

Psalm 50:22

“Mark this, then, you who forget God, or I will tear you apart, and there will be no one to deliver.

Jeremiah 25:38

Like a lion he has left his den, for their land has become a waste because of the cruel anger and because of his fierce anger.

Hosea 2:12

I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, of which she said, “These are my pay, which my lovers have given me.” I will make them a forest, and the wild animals shall devour them.

Hosea 5:14

For I will be like a lion to Ephraim and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear and go away; I will carry off, and no one shall rescue.