⁷ Therefore I have become to them like a lion; like a leopard I will lurk by the way [to Assyria] and watch them.

⁸ I will meet them like a bear that is robbed of her cubs, and I will rend the covering of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lioness, as a wild beast would tear them.

⁹ It is your destruction, O Israel, that you have been against Me, for in Me is your help.