8 Like a bear robbed of her cubs I will attack them, and I will tear open their chests. There I will devour them like a lion, like a wild beast would tear them apart. 9 You are destroyed, O Israel, because you are against Me— against your helper. 10 Where is your king now to save you in all your cities, and the rulers to whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”?
Hosea 13:8–10
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