I will attack them
like a bear robbed of her cubs
and tear open the rib cage over their hearts.
I will devour them there like a lioness,(A)
like a wild beast that would rip them open.
I will destroy you, Israel;
you have no help but Me.[a](B)

10 Where now is your king,[b](C)
that he may save you in all your cities,
and the[c] rulers[d](D) you demanded, saying,
“Give me a king and leaders”?

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 13:9 LXX reads At your destruction, Israel, who will help you?
  2. Hosea 13:10 LXX, Syr, Vg; MT reads I will be your king
  3. Hosea 13:10 Lit your
  4. Hosea 13:10 Or judges

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)

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