Hosea 13:8

English Standard Version 2016

I will fall upon them like a bear robbed of her cubs; I will tear open their breast, and there I will devour them like a lion, as a wild beast would rip them open.

Cross References

2 Samuel 17:8

Hushai said, “You know that your father and his men are mighty men, 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 people.

Jeremiah 12:9

Is my heritage to me like a hyena’s lair? Are the birds of prey against her all around? Go, assemble all the wild beasts; bring them to devour.

Isaiah 56:9

All you beasts of the field, come to devour— all you beasts in the forest.

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.

Proverbs 17:12

Let a man meet a she-bear robbed of her cubs rather than a fool in his 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, lest I tear you apart, and there be none to deliver!

Jeremiah 25:38

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

Hosea 2:12

And I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, of which she said, ‘These are my wages, which my lovers have given me.’ I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field 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, even I, will tear and go away; I will carry off, and no one shall rescue.