Hosea 13:8

Catholic Public Domain Version

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.

Cross References

2 Samuel 17:8

And again Hushai declared, "You know your father, and the men who are with him, to be very strong and bitter in soul, comparable to a bear raging in the forest when her young have been taken away. Moreover, your father is a man of war, and so he will not live among the people.

Psalm 80:13

And so, I sent them away, according to the desires of their heart. They will go forth according to their own inventions.

Proverbs 17:12

It is more expedient to meet a bear robbed of her young, than the foolish trusting in his own folly.

Isaiah 5:29

Their roaring is like the lion; they will roar like young lions. They will both roar and seize their prey. And they will wrap themselves around it, and there will be no one who can rescue it.

Isaiah 56:9

All beasts of the field, all the beasts of the forest: approach and devour!

Jeremiah 12:9

Is my inheritance to me like a discolored bird? Is it like a bird that has entirely changed color? Approach and assemble, all beasts of the earth! Hurry, so that you may devour!

Jeremiah 25:38

He has abandoned those he sheltered like a lion. For the earth has become a desolation before the face of the anger of the dove, and before the face of the fury of the Lord.

Hosea 2:12

And I will corrupt her vines and her fig trees, about which she said, 'These rewards, they are mine, my lovers have given them to me.' And I will place her in a narrow forest, and the beasts of the field will devour her.

Hosea 5:14

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.