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Hosea 11:8-10
New Catholic Bible
Hosea 11:8-10
New Catholic Bible
8 How can I give you up, O Ephraim?
How can I hand you over, O Israel?
How can I treat you like Admah?[a]
How can I make you like Zeboiim?
My heart is overwhelmed within me;
tender compassion is enkindled in my heart.
9 I will not give rein to my fierce anger;
I will not destroy Ephraim again.
For I am God and not a mortal.
I am the Holy One in your midst;
I will not come to you in wrath.
10 [b]They will follow the Lord
who roars like a lion.
And when he roars,
his children will come trembling from the west.
Footnotes
- Hosea 11:8 Admah and Zeboiim: two cities destroyed along with Sodom and Gomorrah, according to Deut 29:22.
- Hosea 11:10 These two verses on the restoration of Israel were certainly added after the Exile. The Lord roars like a lion in order to frighten his enemies and call his children back from the dispersion. To Palestinians, Egypt represented the West.
