4. But I am the Lord your Godfrom the land of Egypt; you know no God but me,and besides me there is no savior.
5. It was I who knew you in the wilderness,in the land of drought;
6. but when they had grazed, they became full, they were filled, and their heart was lifted up; therefore they forgot me.
7. So I am to them like a lion; like a leopard I will lurk beside the way.
8. I will fall upon them like a bear robbed of her cubs;I will tear open their breast,and there I will devour them like a lion, as a wild beast would rip them open.
9. He destroys you, O Israel,for you are against me, against your helper.
10. Where now is your king, to save you in all your cities?Where are all your rulers—those of whom you said,“Give me a king and princes”?
11. I gave you a king in my anger,and I took him away in my wrath.
12. The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up;his sin is kept in store.
13. The pangs of childbirth come for him,but he is an unwise son,for at the right time he does not present himself at the opening of the womb.