Hosea 13:4-8

The Voice

⁴ Eternal One: I’m the Eternal One.
        I’ve been your God ever since you left Egypt.
    You are supposed to be exclusively loyal to Me.
        No other god can be your liberator.
⁵     It was I who established the relationship with you in the wilderness,
        I who looked after you in that parched and weary land.
⁶     When I fed them, they were satisfied,
        but when satisfied, they filled with pride and then forgot Me.
⁷     So I’ll be like a lion to them,
        like a panther stalking the roadside.
⁸     I’ll meet them like a bear who’s lost her cubs;
        I’ll rip open their chests.
    I’ll devour them as if I’m a lion,
        and I’ll tear them apart as if I’m a wild animal.