New King James Version

Hosea 13:7-11 New King James Version (NKJV)

7. “So I will be to them like a lion;Like a leopard by the road I will lurk;

8. I will meet them like a bear deprived of her cubs;I will tear open their rib cage,And there I will devour them like a lion.The wild beast shall tear them.

9. “O Israel, you are destroyed,But your help is from Me.

10. I will be your King;Where is any other,That he may save you in all your cities?And your judges to whom you said,‘Give me a king and princes’?

11. I gave you a king in My anger,And took him away in My wrath.