Text -- Hosea 13:7 (NET)

13:7 So I will pounce on them like a lion; like a leopard I will lurk by the path.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Hos 13:7

¹ tn The vav consecutive + preterite form וָאֱהִי (va’ehi) introduces a consequential or result clause; cf. NAB “Therefore”; NCV “That is why.”

² tn Heb “So I will be like a lion to them” (so NASB); NIV “I will come upon them like a lion.”