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Hosea 11:8

How could I give you up, O Ephraim? How could I surrender you, O Israel? How could I make you like Admah? How could I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within Me; My compassion is stirred!

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ASV

How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I cast thee off, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboiim? my heart is turned within me, my compassions are kindled together.

KJV

How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together.

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Original language & word study

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
אֵ֞יךְ'eikhhow?H349 →
אֶתֶּנְךָ֣'e.ten.Khawill I give up youH5414 →
אֶפְרַ֗יִם'ef.Ra.yimO EphraimH669 →
אֲמַגֶּנְךָ֙'a.ma.gen.Khawill I deliver up? youH4042 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לYis.ra.'ElO IsraelH3478 →
אֵ֚יךְ'eikhhow?H349 →
אֶתֶּנְךָ֣'e.ten.Khawill I make youH5414 →
כְאַדְמָ֔הkhe.'ad.Mahlike AdmahH126 →
אֲשִֽׂימְךָ֖'a.si.me.Khawill I make? youH7760 →
כִּצְבֹאיִ֑םkitz.vo.Yimlike ZeboiimH6636 →
נֶהְפַּ֤ךְneh.Pakhit has been changedH2015 →
עָלַי֙'a.Laion meH5921 →
לִבִּ֔יli.Biheart myH3820 →
יַ֖חַדYa.chadtogetherH3162 →
נִכְמְר֥וּnikh.me.Ruthey have grown warmH3648 →
נִחוּמָֽי׃ni.chu.Maicompassions myH5150 →

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Jeremiah 31:20Is not Ephraim a precious son to Me, a delightful child? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore My heart yearns for him; I have great compassion for him,” declares the LORD.Ezekiel 33:11Say to them: ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked should turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’Lamentations 3:32Even if He causes grief, He will show compassion according to His abundant loving devotion.Matthew 23:37O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!Hosea 6:4What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? For your loyalty is like a morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes.Jeremiah 18:8But if that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to bring.Deuteronomy 32:36For the LORD will vindicate His people and have compassion on His servants when He sees that their strength is gone and no one remains, slave or free.Hebrews 4:15For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who was tempted in every way that we are, yet was without sin.Deuteronomy 29:23All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.Jude 1:7In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire.Genesis 19:24Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.Luke 15:20So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still in the distance, his father saw him and was filled with compassion. He ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him.1 Kings 3:26Then the woman whose son was alive spoke to the king because she yearned with compassion for her son. “Please, my lord,” she said, “give her the living baby. Do not kill him!” But the other woman said, “He will be neither mine nor yours. Cut him in two!”Judges 2:18Whenever the LORD raised up a judge for the Israelites, He was with that judge and saved them from the hands of their enemies while the judge was still alive; for the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning under those who oppressed them and afflicted them.2 Samuel 24:16But when the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.Amos 4:11“Some of you I overthrew as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.Micah 5:3Therefore Israel will be abandoned until she who is in labor has given birth; then the rest of His brothers will return to the children of Israel.Luke 24:47and in His name repentance and forgiveness of sins will be proclaimed to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.

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