8 How can I give you up, Ephraim?ag

How can I surrender you, Israel?

How can I make you like Admah?ah

How can I treat you like Zeboiim?ai

I have had a change of heart;

my compassion is stirred!

9 I will not vent the full fury of my anger;aj

I will not turn back to destroy Ephraim.ak

For I am God and not man,

the Holy One among you;al

I will not come in rage.H

10 They will follow the Lord;am

he will roar like a lion.an

When he roars,

his children will come trembling from the west.ao

11 They will be roused like birds from Egypt

and like dovesap from the land of Assyria.aq

Then I will settle them in their homes.ar

This is the Lord’s declaration.

12 Ephraim surrounds me with lies,as

the house of Israel, with deceit.

Judah still wanders with God

and is faithful to the holy ones.I