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I cannot carry out[a] my fierce anger!
I cannot totally destroy Ephraim!
Because I am God, and not man—the Holy One among you—
I will not come in wrath!

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 11:9 tn The three imperfect verbs function as imperfects of capability, similar to the imperfects of capability in 11:8. See IBHS 564 §34.1a.

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.

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