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So I will be to them like a lion,
    like a leopard I will lurk beside the way.
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 rend them.

I will destroy you, O Israel;
    who[a] can help you?

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 13:9 Gk Syr: Heb for in me

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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