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Summary
I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.
Wild beast
Bible References
As a
2 Samuel 17:8
For," said Hushai, "thou knowest thy father and the men that are with him, how that they be strong men. And they be chafed in their minds, even as a bear robbed of her whelps. And thy father is a man practiced in war, and will not lie a nights among the common people.
Proverbs 17:12
It were better to come against a she Bear robbed of her whelps, than against a fool in his foolishness.
Amos 9:1
I saw the LORD standing upon the altar, and he said, "Smite the door check, that the posts may shake withal. For their covetousness shall fall upon all their heads, and their posterity shall be slain with the sword. They shall not flee away, there shall not one of them escape, nor be delivered.
Wild beast
Psalm 80:13
The wild boar out of the wood hath rooted it up, and the beasts of the field have devoured it.
Isaiah 5:29
Their cry is as it were of a lion, and the roaring of them like lion's whelps. They shall roar, and haunch up the prey, and no man shall recover it or get it from them.
Isaiah 56:9
All the beasts of the field, and all the beasts of the wood, shall come to devour him.
Jeremiah 12:9
Mine heritage is unto me, as a speckled bird; a bird of divers colors is upon it. Go hence, and gather all the beasts of the field together, that they may eat it up.