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.
12 “The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up;His sin is stored up.
13 The sorrows of a woman in childbirth shall come upon him.He is an unwise son,For he should not stay long where children are born.