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I took care of[a] you in the wilderness,
    in a waterless land.
As their pastures flourished,
    all their desires were met.[b]
As they were satiated,
    they became arrogant
        and therefore ignored me.

“So I will be like a lion to them.
    Like a leopard I will stalk them along the road.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 13:5 So LXX. MT reads I knew
  2. Hosea 13:6 Lit. flourished, they were satiated