11:8 How can I give you up, 1 O Ephraim?
How can I surrender you, O Israel?
How can I treat you like Admah?
How can I make you like Zeboiim?
I have had a change of heart! 2
All my tender compassions are aroused! 3
11:9 I cannot carry out 4 my fierce anger!
I cannot totally destroy Ephraim!
Because I am God, and not man – the Holy One among you –
I will not come in wrath!
11:10 He will roar like a lion,
and they will follow the Lord;
when he roars,
his children will come trembling 5 from the west.
11:11 They will return in fear and trembling 6
like birds from Egypt,
like doves from Assyria,
and I will settle them in their homes,” declares the Lord.