Hosea 13:8

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Aku mau mendatangi mereka seperti beruang yang kehilangan anak, Aku mau mengoyakkan dada mereka. Di sana Aku memakan mereka seperti singa; binatang liar di padang akan merobek mereka.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Aku mau mendatangi mereka seperti beruang yang kehilangan anak, Aku mau mengoyakkan dada mereka. Di sana Aku memakan mereka seperti singa; binatang liar di padang akan merobek mereka.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Aku menerkam kepadanya seperti beruang betina yang kehilangan anaknya, dan Kusentak hatinya dari dalam dadanya; pada masa itu Aku makan habis akan mereka itu selaku singa betina, dan segala margasatwa di padangpun mencarik-cariklah mereka itu.

Contextual Overview

⁵ I did knowe thee in the wildernesse, in the lande of drought. ⁶ But when they were well fed, and had enough, they waxed proude, & forgat me. ⁷ Therfore wyll I be vnto them as a lion, and as a leoparde in the wayes to the Assyrians. ⁸ I wyll meete them as a she beare that is robbed of her whelpes, and I wyll breake that stubburne heart of theirs, there wyll I deuour them like a lion, yea the wylde beastes shall teare them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

as a: 2 Samuel 17:8, Proverbs 17:12, Amos 9:1-3

wild beast: Heb. beast of the field, Psalms 80:13, Isaiah 5:29, Isaiah 56:9, Jeremiah 12:9

Reciprocal: Genesis 49:27 - at night Exodus 4:24 - the Lord 2 Kings 2:24 - she bears Job 10:16 - Thou huntest Psalms 7:2 - rending Psalms 50:22 - I tear Proverbs 28:15 - a ranging Isaiah 17:3 - fortress Jeremiah 2:15 - young lions Jeremiah 5:6 - a lion Jeremiah 25:30 - roar Jeremiah 25:38 - hath Lamentations 3:10 - unto Daniel 7:5 - another Hosea 2:10 - and none shall Hosea 5:1 - for Hosea 5:14 - as a lion Hosea 9:13 - shall Amos 1:2 - The Lord Amos 4:12 - prepare 1 Peter 5:8 - devour Revelation 13:2 - and his feet

Cross-References

Genesis 13:2
And Abram was very ryche in cattell, in siluer, and in golde.

Genesis 13:3
And he went foorth on his iourney, from the south towarde Bethel, vnto the place where his tent had ben at the begynnyng, betwene Bethel and Hai:

Genesis 13:6
And the lande was not able to beare them, that they might dwell together: for theyr substaunce was great, so that they coulde not dwell together.

Genesis 13:7
And there fell a stryfe betwene the heardmen of Abrams cattell, and the heardmen of Lottes cattell: Moreouer, the Chanaanites, and Pherisites dwelled at that tyme in the lande.

Genesis 13:9
Is not the whole lande before thee? Seperate thy selfe I pray thee from me: yf thou wilt take the left hande, I wyll go to the ryght: or yf thou depart to the ryght hande, I wyll go to the left.

Genesis 13:11
Then Lot chose all the playne of Iordane, and toke his iourney from the east, and so departed the one [brother] from the other.

Genesis 13:14
And the Lorde saide vnto Abram, after that Lot was departed fro hym: Lyft vp thyne eyes nowe, and loke fro the place where thou art, northwarde, southward, eastwarde, and westward:

Genesis 13:17
Arise, and walke about in the lande, after the length of it, & after the breadth of it: for I wyll geue it vnto thee.

Genesis 13:18
Then Abram taking downe his tent, came and dwelled in the playne of Mamre, which is in Hebron, & buylded there an aulter vnto the Lorde.

Genesis 45:24
So sent he his brethren away, and they departed: and he sayd vnto them, see that ye fall to no stryfe on the way.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I will meet them as a bear [that is] bereaved of her whelps,.... Which is a fierce cruel creature at any time, but especially when this is its case, being very fond of its whelps; and having taken a great deal of pains to lick them into form, as Kimchi and Ben Melech observe, it is the more enraged at the loss of them, and therefore falls upon man or beast it meets with the utmost fury: the phrase is expressive of the fiercest rage; see Proverbs 17:12;

and will rend the caul of their hearts: the pericardium, which is a membrane or skin that encloses the heart, and which when pierced is immediate death: perhaps some respect is had to the closing of their hearts to God, the hardness of them against him and his ways, and their inattention to his word; and now he will open them, not in a way of grace and mercy, but of wrath and fury; as a bear, when it seizes a man, sticks his claws in his breast, tears it open, and makes his way at once to the heart, fetches it out, and sucks his blood:

and there will I devour them like a lion; either in their cities and houses, when taken by the enemy; or in the way, in which they would be observed; or in their captivity: or there may be put for then, and so denotes the time when he would be all this to them before mentioned, and then he would utterly destroy them:

the wild beast shall tear them: which literally is one of God's sore judgments, but here figuratively designs the Assyrian, and who is meant as the instrument of God's vengeance in all the other expressions; and is sometimes compared to a lion, and that as concerned with Israel; see

Jeremiah 50:17; which is much better than by these four sorts of creatures to understand the four monarchies which Israel suffered by. The Targum is,

"my word shall meet them as a bear bereaved, and I will break the wickedness of their hearts, &c.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

As a bear bereaved of her whelps - The Syrian bear is fiercer than the brown bears to which we are accustomed. It attacks flocks 1 Samuel 17:34, and even oxen . The fierceness of the she-bear, “bereaved of her whelps,” became a proverb (2 Samuel 17:8; Proverbs 17:12; and here). : “They who have written on the nature of wild beasts, say that none is more savage than the she-bear, when she has lost her whelps or lacks food.” It blends wonderfully most touching love and fierceness. It tenderly protects its wounded whelps, reckless of its life, so that it may bring them off, and it turns fiercely on their destroyer. Its love for them becomes fury against their injurer. Much more shall God avenge those who destroy His sons and daughters, leading and enticing them into sin and destruction of body and soul.

Rend the caul of - (what encloses) their heart that is, the pericardium. They had closed their hearts against God. Their punishment is pictured by the rending open of the closed heart, by the lion which is said to go instinctively straight to the heart, tears it out, and sucks the blood . Fearful will it be in the Day of Judgment, when the sinner’s heart is laid open, with all the foul, cruel, malicious, defiled, thoughts which it harbored and concealed, against the will of God. “It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God” Hebrews 10:31.

And there will I devour them - “There,” where they sinned, shall they be punished. “The wild beast shall tear them.” What God does, He does mostly through instruments, and what His instruments do, they do fulfilling His will through their own blind will or appetite. Hitherto, He had spoken, as being Himself their punisher, although laying aside, as it were, all His tenderness; now, lest the thought, that still it was He, the God of love who punished, should give them hope, He says, “the wild beast shall devour them.” He gives them up, as it were, out of His own hands to the destroyer.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hosea 13:8. As a bear - bereaved — This is a figure to denote excessive ferocity. 2 Samuel 17:8, where a remarkable instance is given.

And will rend the caul of their heart — Every savage beast goes first to the seat of the blood when it has seized its prey; as in this fluid they delight more than in the most delicate parts of the flesh.

There will I devour them like a lion — לביא labi, the old strong lion; drinking the blood, tearing the flesh, and breaking the bones to extract the marrow.

The wild beast shall tear them — Probably this refers to the chakal or jackal, who frequently hunts down the prey, which the lion takes the liberty to devour, while the jackal stands by, and afterwards picks the bones. Hence he has been called the lion's PROVIDER, and the lion's waiting-man.