8. I will attack themlike a bear robbed of her cubsand tear open the rib cage over their hearts.I will devour them there like a lioness, like a wild beast that would rip them open.
9. I will destroy you, Israel;you have no help but Me.
10. Where now is your king, that he may save you in all your cities,and the rulers you demanded, saying,“Give me a king and leaders”?
11. I give you a king in My anger and take away a king in My wrath.
12. Ephraim’s guilt is preserved;his sin is stored up.
13. Labor pains come on him. He is not a wise son; when the time comes,he will not be born.