7Therefore am I to them as a lion; as a leopard will I watch by the way;
8I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will tear the covering of their heart; and there will I devour them like a lioness; the wild animal shall tear them.
9It is your destruction, Israel, that [you are] against me, against your help.
10Where now is your king, that he may save you in all your cities? and your judges, of whom you said, Give me a king and princes?
11I have given you a king in my anger, and have taken him away in my wrath.
12The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is laid up in store.
13The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come on him: he is an unwise son; for it is time he should not stay in the place of the breaking forth of children.
