“Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them:”
The comparison of the LORD to a lion, leopard, and bear robbed of her cubs suggests the ferocity with which God will pursue Israel in judgment, that the maternal protection that God has offered will be replaced by predatory destruction. The images of predatory animals emphasize the danger and inexorability of divine judgment. This verse establishes that the God who protected Israel will become the threat from which there is no escape.
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