How can I give you up, O Ephraim?
    How can I hand you over, O Israel?
(A)How can I make you (B)like Admah?
    How can I treat you (C)like Zeboiim?
(D)My heart recoils within me;
    my compassion grows warm and tender.
I will not execute my burning anger;
    I will not again destroy Ephraim;
(E)for I am God and not a man,
    (F)the Holy One in your midst,
    and I will not come in wrath.[a]

10 (G)They shall go after the Lord;
    (H)he will roar like a lion;
when he roars,
    his children shall come trembling (I)from the west;
11 they shall come trembling like birds (J)from Egypt,
    and (K)like doves (L)from the land of Assyria,
    and I will return them to their homes, declares the Lord.
12 [b] Ephraim (M)has surrounded me with lies,
    and the house of Israel with deceit,
but Judah still walks with God
    and is faithful to the Holy One.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 11:9 Or into the city
  2. Hosea 11:12 Ch 12:1 in Hebrew

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