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My people are bent on turning away from me;[a]
    so they are appointed to the yoke,
    and none shall remove it.

How can I give you up, O E′phraim!
    How can I hand you over, O Israel!
How can I make you like Admah!
    How can I treat you like Zeboi′im!
My heart recoils within me,
    my compassion grows warm and tender.
I will not execute my fierce anger,
    I will not again destroy E′phraim;
for I am God and not man,
    the Holy One in your midst,
    and I will not come to destroy.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 11:7 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
  2. Hosea 11:9 Cn: Heb into the city

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