Hosea 13:8 meaning and explanation

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.

Hosea 13:8, Berean Standard Bible

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In Hosea 13, the LORD speaks through the prophet to Ephraim, the leading tribe of the northern kingdom of Israel, which had turned to Baal and to man made idols. Verses 4 and 5 recall that the LORD alone was Israel's God and Savior from Egypt through the wilderness.

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