Hosea 13:4-8

Common English Bible

⁴ Yet I have been the Lord your God
        ever since the land of Egypt;
    and you will know no other gods but me;
        there is no savior besides me.
⁵ I knew you in the wilderness,
        in the land of no rain.
⁶ When I fed them, they were satisfied;
        and their hearts became proud;
        therefore, they forgot me.

⁷ So I will become like a lion to them;
        like a leopard I will lurk beside the road.
⁸ I will fall upon them like a bear robbed of her cubs,
        and I will tear open the covering of their hearts.
    I will devour them like a lion,
        as a wild animal would eat them.