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Hosea 13:8 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" I will meet them like a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, and will tear the covering of their heart. There I will devour them like a lioness. The wild animal will tear them. "

Hosea 13:8

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6 According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.

7 Therefore I am like a lion to them. Like a leopard, I will lurk by the path.

8 I will meet them like a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, and will tear the covering of their heart. There I will devour them like a lioness. The wild animal will tear them.

9 You are destroyed, Israel, because you are against me, against your helper.

10 Where is your king now, that he may save you in all your cities? And your judges, of whom you said, ‘Give me a king and princes’?

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Hosea 5:14

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"For I will be to Ephraim like a lion, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear in pieces and go away. I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver."

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Psalms 22:13

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"They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring."

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Isaiah 5:29

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"Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, and seize their prey and carry it off, and there will be no one to deliver."

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Psalms 7:2

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"lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver."

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Jeremiah 5:6

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"Therefore a lion out of the forest will kill them. A wolf of the evenings will destroy them. A leopard will watch against their cities. Everyone who goes out there will be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many and their backsliding has increased."

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Deuteronomy 32:24

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"They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, with the venom of vipers that glide in the dust."

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Hosea 13:1

"When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He exalted himself in Israel, but when he became guilty through Baal, he died."

Hosea 13:2

"Now they sin more and more, and have made themselves molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen. They say of them, ‘They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves.’"

Hosea 13:3

"Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the dew that passes away early, like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, and like the smoke out of the chimney."

Hosea 13:4

"“Yet I am the LORD your God from the land of Egypt; and you shall acknowledge no god but me, and besides me there is no savior."

Hosea 13:5

"I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of great drought."

Hosea 13:6

"According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me."

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