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I am Yahweh your God
    since[a] the land of Egypt;
you know no god except me,
    and no one saves besides me.
I fed you[b] in the desert,
    in the land of drought.
When I fed them,[c] they were satisfied;
    they were satisfied and their heart was lifted up;
        therefore they forgot me.
And I will be like a lion to them;
    I lie in wait beside the way, like a leopard.
I will attack them like a bear robbed of her offspring,
    and I will tear open the covering of their heart;
there I will devour them like a lion,
    like an animal of the field would mutilate them.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 13:4 Or “from”
  2. Hosea 13:5 So LXX; Hebrew “I knew you”
  3. Hosea 13:6 Hebrew “According to their pasture”

“Yet I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt;
    and you shall acknowledge no god but me,
    and besides me there is no savior.
I knew you in the wilderness,
    in the land of great drought.
According to their pasture, so were they filled;
    they were filled, and their heart was exalted.
    Therefore they have forgotten me.
Therefore I am like a lion to them.
    Like a leopard, I will lurk by the path.
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.

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