⁷ Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them:

¹⁴ For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.

⁶ Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.

¹⁰ He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.

⁸ The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy?