Hosea 11:9
7 My people are bent on turning from Me. Though they call to the Most High, He will by no means exalt them.
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!
I will not execute the full fury of My anger; I will not turn back to destroy Ephraim. For I am God and not man— the Holy One among you— and I will not come in wrath.
10 They will walk after the LORD; He will roar like a lion. When He roars, His children will come trembling from the west.
11 They will come trembling like birds from Egypt and like doves from the land of Assyria. Then I will settle them in their homes, declares the LORD.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I will not execute the full fury of My anger; I will not turn back to destroy Ephraim. For I am God and not man— the Holy One among you— and I will not come in wrath.
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- I will not execute the fierceness of my anger. I will not return to destroy Ephraim, for I am God, and not man—the Holy One among you. I will not come in wrath.
- ASV
- 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 come in wrath.
- DARBY
- I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am God, and not man, the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not come in anger.
- BLB
- I will not act [in] the burning of My anger; I will not turn back to destroy Ephraim. For I [am] God, and not a man—the Holy One in your midst, and I will not come in enmity.
- ÅB
- Jeg vil ikke fullbyrde min brennende vrede, jeg vil ikke igjen ødelegge Efra'im; for jeg er Gud og ikke et menneske, den Hellige i din midte; jeg kommer ikke med glødende harme.
- OTB
- Jeg vil ikke slippe løs min voldsomme vrede;
jeg vil ikke ødelegge Efraim igjen.
For jeg er Gud og ikke et menneske,
jeg er Den Hellige blant dere,
og jeg vil ikke komme i raseri. - B1930
- Jeg vil ikke fullbyrde min brennende vrede, jeg vil ikke atter ødelegge Efra'im; for jeg er Gud og ikke et menneske, den Hellige i din midte; jeg kommer ikke med glødende harme.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Numbers 23:19
God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
Read in contextIsaiah 55:8–9
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.
Read in contextJeremiah 30:11
For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have scattered you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means leave you unpunished.”
Read in contextIsaiah 12:6
Cry out and sing, O citizen of Zion, for great among you is the Holy One of Israel.”
Read in contextMicah 7:18–20
Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance— who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
Read in contextEzekiel 37:27–28
My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be My people.
Read in contextMalachi 3:6
“Because I, the LORD, do not change, you descendants of Jacob have not been destroyed.
Read in contextRomans 11:28–29
Regarding the gospel, they are enemies on your account; but regarding election, they are loved on account of the patriarchs.
Read in context