Verse 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.

Referenced Verses

• 2 Sam 17:8 : 8 Hushai said moreover, "You know your father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are fierce in their minds, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Your father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.
• Ps 50:22 : 22 "Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be none to deliver.
• Ps 80:13 : 13 The boar out of the wood ravages it. The wild animals of the field feed on it.
• Prov 17:12 : 12 Let a bear robbed of her cubs meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.
• Isa 5:29 : 29 Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, and seize their prey and carry it off, and there will be no one to deliver.
• Isa 56:9 : 9 All you animals of the field, come to devour, [yes], all you animals in the forest.
• Jer 12:9 : 9 Is my heritage to me as a speckled bird of prey? are the birds of prey against her all around? Go, assemble all the animals of the field, bring them to devour.
• Amos 9:1-3 : 1 I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said, "Strike the tops of the pillars, that the thresholds may shake; and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will kill the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them escape. 2 Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down. 3 Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out there; and though they be hidden from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them.