⁸ “How can I give you up,^(A) Ephraim?^(B)
    How can I hand you over, Israel?
How can I treat you like Admah?
    How can I make you like Zeboyim?^(C)
My heart is changed within me;
    all my compassion^(D) is aroused.^(E)

⁹ I will not carry out my fierce anger,^(A)
    nor will I devastate^(B) Ephraim again.
For I am God, and not a man^(C)—
    the Holy One^(D) among you.
    I will not come against their cities.