Hosea 11:8-10

Living Bible

⁸ “Oh, how can I give you up, my Ephraim? How can I let you go? How can I forsake you like Admah and Zeboiim?^[a] My heart cries out within me; how I long to help you! ⁹ No, I will not punish you as much as my fierce anger tells me to. This is the last time I will destroy Ephraim. For I am God and not man; I am the Holy One living among you, and I did not come to destroy.

¹⁰ “For the people shall walk after the Lord. I shall roar as a lion at their enemies and my people shall return trembling from the west.