Hosea 13:4-8

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁴ Yet I have been the Lord your God
    ever since the land of Egypt;
you know no God but me,
    and besides me there is no saviour.
⁵ It was I who fed^[a] you in the wilderness,
    in the land of drought.
⁶ When I fed^[b] them, they were satisfied;
    they were satisfied, and their heart was proud;
    therefore they forgot me.
⁷ So I will become like a lion to them,
    like a leopard I will lurk beside the way.
⁸ I will fall upon them like a bear robbed of her cubs,
    and will tear open the covering of their heart;
there I will devour them like a lion,
    as a wild animal would mangle them.