7Therefore I am like a lion to them. Like a leopard, I will lurk by the path.


In Context

4 |Yet I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt; and you shall acknowledge no god but me, and besides me there is no savior.

5 I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.

6 According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.

7 Therefore I am like a lion to them. Like a leopard, I will lurk by the path.

8 I will meet them like a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, and will tear the covering of their heart. There I will devour them like a lioness. The wild animal will tear them.

9 You are destroyed, Israel, because you are against me, against your help.

Hosea 13:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

13:7Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe [them: ]

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

13:7So I will come upon them like a lion, like a leopard I will lurk by the path.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

13:7And I will be to them as a lioness, as a leopard in the way of the Assyrians.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

13:7Therefore am I unto them as a lion; as a leopard will I watch by the way;

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

13:7And I will be unto them as a lion; as a leopard I will lurk for them by the way;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

13:7Therefore am I unto them as a lion: as a leopard will I watch by the way:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

13:7Therefore I will be to them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

13:7And I am to them as a lion, As a leopard by the way I look out.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

13:7Therefore I will be to them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them: