Verse 7
"Therefore am I unto them as a lion; as a leopard will I watch by the way; I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart; and there will I devour them like a lioness; the wild beast shall tear them."
Hardly any comment is needed on such a denunciation as this. God who was the Shepherd of Israel would, because of their forgetting him, suddenly appear, not as a kind and loving shepherd, but as the most ferocious of wild beasts, and tear the heart out of that wicked nation.
"Rend the caul of their heart ..." is a reference to the pericardium. God, once their friend, would become their enemy! Keil, Harley and others have noted that the Hebrew verbs here indicate that the punishment of Israel had already begun and that it would not cease until a total end of the apostate nation occurred.
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