Hosea 13:8
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.
Cross-reference
Hosea 5:14 explicitly uses the same lion metaphor: God tears like a lion and no one rescues, reinforcing the judgment theme.
2 Samuel 17:8 uses the exact same phrase 'bear robbed of her cubs' to describe David's warriors — a parallel idiom for fierceness.
Proverbs 17:12 uses the identical 'bear robbed of her cubs' to compare meeting a fool — a parallel to the danger described.
2 Kings 2:24 shows she-bears tearing people as divine judgment, a direct parallel to the bear attack imagery here.
Job 10:16 uses lion hunting imagery for God's attack, mirroring the lion metaphor for divine judgment in Hosea.
Psalm 50:22 has God warning he will tear apart with no deliverer, exactly matching the divine tearing judgment here.
Jeremiah 5:6 uses the same judgment imagery of wild animals (lion, wolf, leopard) tearing Israel for their transgressions, echoing the bear and lion here.
Lamentations 3:10 directly uses both bear and lion as God attacking, identical to the two animals named here.
In 1 Peter 5:8, the lion represents the devil, not God — contrasting the divine judgment here with Satan's predatory attacks.
Isaiah 56:9 calls wild beasts to devour Israel's leaders — a parallel summons of animals for judgment.
Jeremiah 12:9 also uses wild beasts devouring as divine judgment on God's heritage, echoing the same predatory imagery.
Isaiah 5:29 uses lion imagery for an invading army seizing prey — a parallel metaphor for judgment with no rescue.
Jeremiah 25:38 says God leaves his lair like a lion in fierce anger, paralleling the lion imagery of divine judgment here.