“For I will be to Ephraim like a lion, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear in pieces and go away. I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver.”

Reading this verse in context

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.