7Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them:
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For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.
Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.
He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies.
The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-8)We may observe here, 1. The plentiful provision God had made for Israel and the seasonable supplies he had blessed them with (Hos. 14:5): “ I did know thee in the wilderness , took cognizance of thy case and made provision for thee, even in a land of great drought , when thou wast in extreme distress, and when no relief was to be had in an ordinary way.” See a description of this wilderness, Deut.…
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