Hosea 5:14
For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.
Cross-references
In Hosea 5:9, Ephraim is laid waste on the day of reckoning — the same judgment event described as a lion tearing here.
In Hosea 5:5, Israel's arrogance testifies against them, leading to stumbling — the reason for the lion-like judgment here.
Hosea 13:8 adds bear and wild beasts, intensifying the predator imagery of tearing and devouring.
In Hosea 13:7, the same lion metaphor is repeated, emphasizing God's judgment as a predator against Israel.
In Hosea 2:10, God declares no one can rescue from his hands — matching the 'no one to rescue them' imagery here.
Amos 2:14 also depicts the futility of escaping God's judgment—the swift cannot flee, the mighty cannot save—mirroring 'no one shall rescue'.
Psalm 7:2 uses nearly identical language—enemies tear like a lion with no deliverer—matching the threat here.
Psalm 50:22 echoes God's warning to tear the wicked with no deliverer, directly paralleling the statement here.
Isaiah 5:29 uses identical imagery of a lion seizing prey with no deliverer, describing the Assyrian army as God's instrument of judgment.
Lamentations 3:10 portrays God as a lion lying in wait, reinforcing the divine predator motif.
Job 16:9 describes God tearing Job in wrath—same violent imagery of God as an adversary who tears, no rescuer.
In Ezekiel 34:11, God is a shepherd seeking his sheep, contrasting with the lion tearing and no rescuer here.
Jeremiah 25:38 compares God to a lion leaving his lair to make land desolate—strongly echoes the lion imagery and tearing away in Hosea.
Jeremiah 25:30 has the Lord roaring like a lion from on high—directly parallels the lion metaphor for God’s fierce judgment in Hosea.
Isaiah 43:13 declares no one can deliver from God’s hand—directly echoing ‘no one to rescue them’ in Hosea, reinforcing divine sovereignty in judgment.
Isaiah 38:13 uses the same lion metaphor: God breaks bones like a lion, paralleling the tearing and crushing in Hosea’s depiction of judgment.
Jeremiah 5:6 lists lions, wolves, and leopards attacking due to rebellion—parallels tearing judgment but attributes it to wild beasts, not directly to God.
Jeremiah 2:15 describes lions roaring against Israel as enemy invaders—similar destruction imagery but with lions as agents rather than God himself.
In Job 10:16, Job uses the lion-hunting metaphor for God's pursuit, mirroring the tearing action here but in personal suffering.
Amos 3:4-8 uses lion's roar as a metaphor for the certainty of God's judgment, complementing the tearing action.
Jeremiah 30:14 says God struck as an enemy, punishing cruelly—parallels harsh judgment but without explicit lion imagery.