7 “So ^aI will be to them like a lion;
Like ^ba leopard by the road I will lurk; ‡

8 I will meet the¹m ^alike a bear deprived of her cubs;
I will tear open their rib cage,
And there I will devour them like a lion.
The wild beast shall tear them. ‡

11 ^aI gave you a king in My anger,
And took him away in My wrath. ‡

12 “The^a iniquity of Ephraim is bound up;
His sin is stored up. ‡