Hosea 11:8-10

International Children’s Bible

⁸ “Israel, I don’t want to give you up.
    I don’t want to go away and leave you.
I don’t want to make you like Admah.
    I don’t want to treat you like Zeboiim.^[a]
My heart beats for you.
    My love for you stirs up my pity.
⁹ I won’t punish you in my anger.
    I won’t destroy Israel again.
I am God and not man.
    I am the Holy One, and I am among you.
    I will not come against you in anger.
¹⁰ I will call for my people like
    a lion calling for its young.
My children will come and follow me.
    They will hurry to me from the west.