Add parallel Print Page Options

I will attack you like a bear that has lost her cubs, and I will tear you open. Like a lion I will devour you on the spot, and will tear you to pieces like a wild animal.

“I will destroy you, people of Israel! Then who can help you?[a] 10 (A)You asked for a king and for leaders, but how can they save the nation?[b]

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Hosea 13:9 One ancient translation who can help you?; Hebrew in me is your help.
  2. Hosea 13:10 Verse 10 in Hebrew is unclear.

Like a bear robbed of her cubs,(A)
    I will attack them and rip them open;
like a lion(B) I will devour them—
    a wild animal will tear them apart.(C)

“You are destroyed, Israel,
    because you are against me,(D) against your helper.(E)
10 Where is your king,(F) that he may save you?
    Where are your rulers in all your towns,
of whom you said,
    ‘Give me a king and princes’?(G)

Read full chapter