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Read Full Chapter (Hosea 13) Hosea 13:8-9 KJV
"I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them. O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help."
Hosea 13:8-9 in Context (Verses 5–12 KJV)
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¶ I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.*
6
According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.
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Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them:
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I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.*
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¶ O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help.*
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I will be thy king: where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes?*
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I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath.
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The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid.