Hosea 5:14 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁴ For I will be like a lion to Ephraim, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will rend and go away, I will carry off, and none shall rescue.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ For I will be to Ephraim like a lion, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will rend and go on [rending]; I will carry off and there will be no one to deliver.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will carry off, and there shall be none to deliver.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ I am like a lion to Ephraim, like a young lion to the house of Judah. I am the one who tears the prey and goes forth; no one can snatch it from me.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ For I will be like a lioness to Ephraim, and like a lion's offspring to the house of Judah. I myself will seize and go forth. I will take away, and there is no one who can rescue.

Hosea 5:14 Cross References

Micah 5:8

And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep, which, when it goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is none to deliver.

Psalm 7:2

lest like a lion they rend me, dragging me away, with none to rescue.

Psalm 50:22

“Mark this, then, you who forget God, lest I rend, and there be none to deliver!

Amos 2:14

Flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not retain his strength, nor shall the mighty save his life;

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 none can rescue.

Lamentations 3:10

He is to me like a bear lying in wait, like a lion in hiding;

Job 10:16

And if I lift myself up, thou dost hunt me like a lion, and again work wonders against me;

Job 10:7

although thou knowest that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of thy hand?

Deuteronomy 28:31

Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat of it; your ass shall be violently taken away before your face, and shall not be restored to you; your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and there shall be no one to help you.

Jeremiah 25:38

Like a lion he has left his covert, for their land has become a waste because of the sword of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.”

Hosea 6:1

“Come, let us return to the Lord; for he has torn, that he may heal us; he has stricken, and he will bind us up.

Deuteronomy 32:39

“ ‘See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

Hosea 2:12

And I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, of which she said, ‘These are my hire, which my lovers have given me.’ I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall devour them.

Hosea 13:6

but when they had fed to the full, they were filled, and their heart was lifted up; therefore they forgot me.