I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, and will tear the fat of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Whelps; with the greatest fury, 2 Kings xvii. 8.
Inner. Hebrew, "what encloses the heart "or, I will break their hard heart. (Calmet)