Hosea 11:8–11 
 
 8  How can I give you up, O Ephraim? 
How can I hand you over, O Israel? 
nHow can I make you olike Admah? 
How can I treat you olike Zeboiim? 
pMy heart recoils within me; 
my compassion grows warm and tender. 
 9  I will not execute my burning anger; 
I will not again destroy Ephraim; 
qfor I am God and not a man, 
rthe Holy One in your midst, 
and I will not come in wrath.3 
 10  sThey shall go after the Lord; 
the will roar like a lion; 
when he roars, 
his children shall come trembling ufrom the west; 
 11  they shall come trembling like birds vfrom Egypt, 
and wlike doves xfrom the land of Assyria, 
and I will return them to their homes, declares the Lord.
 
         
                
		 
		 
		