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How can I give you up, O Ephraim?
    How can I hand you over, O Israel?
How can I make you like Admah?
    How can I treat you like Zeboiim?
My heart is disturbed[a] within me;
    all[b] my compassions are aroused.
I will not execute[c] my fierce anger,[d]
    I will not again destroy Ephraim;
because I am God
    and not a mortal,[e]
    the Holy One in your midst;
and I will not come in wrath.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 11:8 Or “My heart is overturned”
  2. Hosea 11:8 Literally “together”
  3. Hosea 11:9 Literally “I will not do”
  4. Hosea 11:9 Literally “the anger of my nose”
  5. Hosea 11:9 Or “human”

“How(A) can I give you up, Ephraim?
How can I hand you over, Israel?
How can I make you like (B)Admah?
How can I set you like Zeboiim?
My heart [a]churns within Me;
My sympathy is stirred.
I will not execute the fierceness of My anger;
I will not again destroy Ephraim.
(C)For I am God, and not man,
The Holy One in your midst;
And I will not [b]come with terror.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 11:8 Lit. turns over
  2. Hosea 11:9 Or enter a city