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Natural adult bear alert in an empty rocky clearing with distant lioness partly hidden; no cub injury, human victim, torn chest or animal attack. Restrained animal metaphor.
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Hosea 13:8

A Bear Robbed of Cubs

The Forgotten Savior · Hosea 13

Story guide: Prophetic illustration grounded in the verse; national designations and metaphors are not newly narrated events.

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8I will attack them like a bear robbed of her cubs, and I will tear open the enclosure of their heart; there I will devour them like a lioness; a wild beast of the field will rip them apart.

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