4  But ^xI am the Lord your God

from the land of Egypt;

you know no God but me,

and ^ybesides me there is no savior.

5  It was I who knew you in the ^zwilderness,

in the land of drought;

6  but when they had grazed,¹ they became full,

they were filled, and their heart was lifted up;

therefore they ^aforgot me.

7  So I am to them like a lion;

like a leopard I will lurk beside the way.

8  I will fall upon them like a bear robbed of her cubs;

I will tear open their breast,

and there I will devour them like a lion,

as a wild beast would rip them open.