Hos 11:8-9 | ESV | STEP | 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 recoils within me; my compassion grows warm and tender .

Hosea 11:8-9

8 How can I give you up, O Ephraim?
How can I hand you over, O Israel?
^aHow can I make you ^blike Admah?
How can I treat you ^clike Zeboiim?
^dMy heart recoils within me;
my compassion grows warm and tender.
9 I will not execute my burning anger;
I will not again destroy Ephraim;
^efor I am God and not a man,
^fthe Holy One in your midst,
and I will not come in wrath. ^{▼▼Or into the city}