Hosea 13:8

Modern English Version

I will attack them like a bear bereaved of her cubs, and will tear open their rib cage. There I will devour them like a lion, as the wild beast would tear them to pieces.

Cross References

2 Samuel 17:8

Moreover, Hushai said, “You know that your father and his men are warriors, and they have been provoked like a bear robbed of her cubs. Your father is a veteran of warfare. He will not spend the night with the people.

Psalm 50:22

“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver:

Psalm 80:13

The boar from the woods ravages it, and the insects of the field devour it.

Proverbs 17:12

Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool in his folly.

Isaiah 5:29

Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions; they shall roar and lay hold of the prey; and shall carry it away, and no one shall deliver it.

Isaiah 56:9

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

Jeremiah 12:9

My inheritance is to Me as a speckled vulture; the vultures all around are against her. Come, assemble all the beasts of the field, bring them to devour.

Jeremiah 25:38

He has left His lair as the lion; for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor and because of His fierce anger.

Hosea 2:12

I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, of which she has said, “These are my rewards that my lovers have given me.” I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field will eat 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 will rescue.