Hosea 11:10

‘They will walk after YHWH,

Who will roar like a lion,

For he will roar,

And the children will come trembling from the west.'

For when the time came for Him to act in mercy He would roar like a lion, so that Ephraim would walk after YHWH. His roaring would cause them to respond to the covenant with all their hearts (compare Amos 3:8). He would roar, and his young lion cubs would come to Him ‘trembling' (the word means ‘jumping with fear, shaking') from the west' (i.e. through the Valley of Jezreel to the west of Samaria, on their way from Assyria and Egypt). His people will once again know ‘the fear of YHWH'.

Some see ‘from the west (sea)' as signifying from further afield, even from countries across the sea.