Hosea 11:8 - The Scriptures 1998

⁸ “How could I give you up, Ephrayim? How could I hand you over, Yisra’ĕ

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ How can I give you up, O Ephraim! How can I surrender you and cast you off, O Israel! How can I make you as Admah or how can I treat you as Zeboiim [both destroyed with Sodom]! My heart recoils within Me; My compassions are kindled together. [Deut. 29:23.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ 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.

Common English Bible

⁸ How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart winces within me; my compassion grows warm and tender.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ How will I provide for you, Ephraim; how will I protect you, Israel? How will I provide for you as for Adam; will I set you like Zeboiim? My heart has changed within me; together with my regret, it has been stirred up.

Hosea 11:8 Cross References

Genesis 14:8

And the sovereign of Seḏ

2 Samuel 24:16

And the messenger stretched out His hand over Yerushalayim to destroy it, and יהוה  relented concerning the evil, and said to the messenger who was destroying the people, “It is enough, now stop Your hand.” And the messenger of יהוה  was by the threshing-floor of Arawnah the Yeḇ

1 Kings 3:26

And the woman whose son was living spoke to the sovereign, for she was overcome with compassion for her son. And she said, “O my master, give her the living child, and by no means kill him!” But the other said, “Let him be neither mine nor yours, but divide him.”

2 Kings 13:23

But יהוה  showed favour to them, and had compassion on them, and turned toward them, for the sake of His covenant with Aḇ

2 Chronicles 36:15

And יהוה  Elohim of their fathers sent to them, by His messengers, rising up early and sending them, for He had compassion on His people and on His dwelling place.

Psalm 106:45

And remember His covenant for their sake, And relent according to the greatness of His kindness.

Isaiah 16:11

Therefore my inward parts sound like a lyre for Mo’aḇ

Isaiah 63:15

Look down from the heavens, and see from Your set-apart and comely dwelling. Where are Your ardour and Your might, the stirring of Your inward parts and Your compassion toward me? Are they withheld?

Jeremiah 18:8

and that nation shall turn from its evil because I have spoken against it, then I shall repent of the evil that I thought to do to it.

Jeremiah 3:12

“Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, ‘Return, O backsliding Yisra’ĕ

Jeremiah 31:20

“Is Ephrayim a precious son to Me, a child of delights? For though I spoke against him, I still remembered him. That is why My affections were deeply moved for him. I have great compassion for him,” declares יהוה.

Jeremiah 42:10

‘If you would indeed stay in this land, then I shall build you and not pull you down, and I shall plant you and not pluck you up. For I have relented of the evil I have done to you.

Jeremiah 9:6

“You live in the midst of deceit; through deceit they have refused to know Me,” declares יהוה.

Jeremiah 9:7

Therefore thus said יהוה  of hosts, “See, I shall refine them, and shall try them, for what shall I do because of the daughter of My people?

Lamentations 1:20

“See, O יהוה, that I am in distress. My inward parts are boiling up, My heart is overturned within me, For I have been very rebellious. From without the sword has bereaved, At home it is like death.

Lamentations 3:32

For though He afflicted, Yet He shall show compassion According to the greatness of His kindnesses.

Lamentations 3:33

For He has not afflicted from His heart, Nor does He grieve the children of men.

Ezekiel 33:11

“Say to them, ‘As I live,’ declares the Master יהוה, ‘I have no pleasure in the death of the wrong, but that the wrong turn from his way and live. Turn back, turn back from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Yisra’ĕ

Ezekiel 6:9

“And those of you who escape shall remember Me among the gentiles where they have been taken captive, because I have been broken by their adulterous heart which has turned away from Me, and by their eyes which whored after their idols. And they shall loathe themselves for the evils which they have done in all their abominations.

Hosea 6:4

“Ephrayim, what would I do with you? Yehuḏ

Hosea 7:1

“Whenever I would heal Yisra’ĕ

Amos 4:11

“I have overthrown some of you, as Elohim overthrew Seḏ

Amos 7:3

יהוה  relented concerning this. “It shall not be,” said יהוה.

Amos 7:6

יהוה  relented concerning this. “This shall not be either,” said the Master יהוה.

Micah 5:3

Therefore He shall give them up, until the time that she who is in labour has given birth, and the remnant of His brothers return to the children of Yisra’ĕ

Zephaniah 2:9

“Therefore, as I live,” declares יהוה  of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕ

Matthew 23:37

“Yerushalayim, Yerushalayim, killing the prophets and stoning those who are sent to her! How often I wished to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, but you would not!

Deuteronomy 29:22

“And the generation to come of your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a far land, shall say when they see the plagues of that land and the sicknesses which יהוה  has sent into it:

Deuteronomy 29:23

‘All its land is sulphur, salt, and burning; it is not sown, nor does it bear, nor does any grass grow there, like the overthrow of Seḏ

Deuteronomy 32:36

“For יהוה  rightly rules His people And has compassion on His servants, When He sees that their power is gone, And there is no one remaining, Shut up or at large.

2 Peter 2:6

and having reduced to ashes the cities of Seḏ

Jude 1:7

Even as Seḏ

Revelation 11:8

and their dead bodies lie in the street of the great city which spiritually is called Seḏ

Revelation 18:18

and cried out when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, ‘What is like this great city?’

Judges 10:16

So they put away the foreign mighty ones from their midst and served יהוה. And His being was grieved with the trouble of Yisra’ĕ