7. “So I am become like a lion to them, like a leopard I watch by the way,
8. like a bear robbed of her young I attack them and rip open the enclosure of their heart. And there I devour them like a lion, a wild beast tear them apart.
9. “You have destroyed yourself, O Yisra’ĕl, but your help is in Me.
10. “Where is your sovereign now to save you in all your cities, and your rulers of whom you said, ‘Give me a sovereign and rulers’?
11. “I gave you a sovereign in My displeasure, but I took him away in My wrath.
12. “The crookedness of Ephrayim is bound up, his sin is hidden.
13. “Pains of a woman in labour shall come upon him. He is not a wise son, for it is not the time that he should delay at the breaking forth of children.
14. “From the power of the grave I ransom them, from death I redeem them. Where is your plague, O Death? Where is your destruction, O Grave? Repentance is hidden from My eyes.