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So I will be like a lion to them.
    Like a leopard, I will lurk along the path.
I will come upon them like a bear robbed of her cubs.
    I will tear the cover off their hearts.
    Then I will devour them like a lioness.
    The wild animals will rip them apart.
This is what has destroyed you, Israel:
    the fact that you are against me, against your helper.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 13:9 Or it has destroyed you, Israel, because it is from me, from your helper

So I will be like a lion(A) to them,
    like a leopard I will lurk by the path.
Like a bear robbed of her cubs,(B)
    I will attack them and rip them open;
like a lion(C) I will devour them—
    a wild animal will tear them apart.(D)

“You are destroyed, Israel,
    because you are against me,(E) against your helper.(F)

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