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“Israel, I don’t want to give you up.
    I don’t want to go away and leave you.
I don’t want to make you like Admah.
    I don’t want to treat you like Zeboiim.[a]
My heart beats for you.
    My love for you stirs up my pity.
I won’t punish you in my anger.
    I won’t destroy Israel again.
I am God and not man.
    I am the Holy One, and I am among you.
    I will not come against you in anger.
10 I will call for my people like
    a lion calling for its young.
My children will come and follow me.
    They will hurry to me from the west.

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  1. 11:8 Admah . . . Zeboiim Two other cities destroyed when God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.

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