Hosea 11:9
I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city.
More from Hosea 11
When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed
I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat
He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.
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