Hosea 13:8

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

I will attack them like a bear robbed of her cubs and tear open the rib cage over their hearts. I will devour them there like a lioness, like a wild beast that would rip them open.

Cross References

2 Samuel 17:8

Hushai continued, ‘You know your father and his men. They are warriors and are desperate like a wild bear robbed of her cubs.  Your father is an experienced soldier who won’t spend the night with the people.

Jeremiah 12:9

Is my inheritance like a hyena  to me? Are birds of prey circling her? Go, gather all the wild animals; bring them to devour her.

Isaiah 56:9

All you animals of the field and forest, come and eat!

Isaiah 5:29

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

Proverbs 17:12

Better for a person to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool in his foolishness.

Jeremiah 25:38

He has left his den like a lion, for their land has become a desolation because of the sword  of the oppressor, because of his burning anger.

Hosea 2:12

I will devastate her vines and fig trees. She thinks that these are her wages that her lovers have given her. I will turn them into a thicket, and the wild animals will eat them.

Hosea 5:14

For I am like a lion to Ephraim and like a young lion to the house of Judah. Yes, I will tear them to pieces and depart. I will carry them off, and no one can rescue them.