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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.
10     They will go after Yahweh;
        he roars like a lion.
When he roars,
    his children will come trembling
        from the sea.[f]

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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”
  6. Hosea 11:10 That is, “the West”

“How can I give you up,(A) Ephraim?(B)
    How can I hand you over, Israel?
How can I treat you like Admah?
    How can I make you like Zeboyim?(C)
My heart is changed within me;
    all my compassion(D) is aroused.(E)
I will not carry out my fierce anger,(F)
    nor will I devastate(G) Ephraim again.
For I am God, and not a man(H)
    the Holy One(I) among you.
    I will not come against their cities.
10 They will follow the Lord;
    he will roar(J) like a lion.(K)
When he roars,
    his children will come trembling(L) from the west.(M)

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