Hosea 11:8

New American Bible - revised edition

How could I give you up, Ephraim, or deliver you up, Israel? How could I treat you as Admah, or make you like Zeboiim? My heart is overwhelmed, my pity is stirred.

Cross References

Genesis 14:8

Thereupon the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) marched out, and in the Valley of Siddim they went into battle against them:

2 Samuel 24:16

But when the angel stretched forth his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord changed his mind about the calamity, and said to the angel causing the destruction among the people: Enough now! Stay your hand. The angel of the Lord was then standing at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

1 Kings 3:26

The woman whose son was alive, because she was stirred with compassion for her son, said to the king, “Please, my lord, give her the living baby—do not kill it!” But the other said, “It shall be neither mine nor yours. Cut it in two!”

2 Kings 13:23

But the Lord was gracious with Israel and looked on them with compassion because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He was unwilling to destroy them or to cast them out from his presence even up to now.

2 Chronicles 36:15

Early and often the Lord, the God of their ancestors, sent his messengers to them, for he had compassion on his people and his dwelling place.

Psalm 106:45

For their sake he remembered his covenant and relented in his abundant mercy,

Isaiah 16:11

Therefore for Moab my heart moans like a lyre, my inmost being for Kir-hareseth.

Isaiah 63:15

Look down from heaven and regard us from your holy and glorious palace! Where is your zealous care and your might, your surge of pity? Your mercy hold not back!

Jeremiah 18:8

but if that nation against whom I have decreed turns from its evil, then I will have a change of heart regarding the evil which I have decreed.

Jeremiah 3:12

Go, proclaim these words toward the north, and say: Return, rebel Israel—oracle of the Lord— I will not remain angry with you; For I am merciful, oracle of the Lord, I will not keep my anger forever.

Jeremiah 31:20

Is Ephraim not my favored son, the child in whom I delight? Even though I threaten him, I must still remember him! My heart stirs for him, I must show him compassion!—oracle of the Lord.

Jeremiah 42:10

If indeed you will remain in this land, I will build you up, and not tear you down; I will plant you, not uproot you; for I repent of the evil I have done you.

Jeremiah 9:6

Therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: I will refine them and test them; how else should I deal with the daughter of my people?

Jeremiah 9:7

A murderous arrow is their tongue, their mouths utter deceit; They speak peaceably with their neighbors, but in their hearts they lay an ambush!

Lamentations 1:20

Look, O Lord, at the anguish I suffer! My stomach churns, And my heart recoils within me: How bitter I am! Outside the sword bereaves— indoors, there is death.

Lamentations 3:32

Though he brings grief, he takes pity, according to the abundance of his mercy;

Lamentations 3:33

He does not willingly afflict or bring grief to human beings.

Ezekiel 33:11

Answer them: As I live—oracle of the Lord God—I swear I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! Why should you die, house of Israel?

Ezekiel 6:9

Then your refugees will remember me among the nations to which they have been exiled, after I have broken their lusting hearts that turned away from me and their eyes that lusted after idols. They will loathe themselves for all the evil they have done, for all their abominations.

Hosea 6:4

What can I do with you, Ephraim? What can I do with you, Judah? Your loyalty is like morning mist, like the dew that disappears early.

Hosea 7:1

when I would have healed Israel, The guilt of Ephraim was revealed, the wickedness of Samaria: They practiced falsehood. Thieves break in, bandits roam outside.

Amos 4:11

I overthrew you as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah; you were like a brand plucked from the fire, Yet you did not return to me— oracle of the Lord.

Amos 7:3

The Lord relented concerning this. “This shall not be,” said the Lord God.

Amos 7:6

The Lord relented concerning this. “This also shall not be,” said the Lord God.

Micah 5:3

He shall take his place as shepherd by the strength of the Lord, by the majestic name of the Lord, his God; And they shall dwell securely, for now his greatness shall reach to the ends of the earth:

Zephaniah 2:9

Therefore, as I live— oracle of the Lord of hosts— the God of Israel, Moab shall become like Sodom, the Ammonites like Gomorrah: A field of weeds, a salt pit, a waste forever. The remnant of my people shall plunder them, the survivors of my nation dispossess them.

Matthew 23:37

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how many times I yearned to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her young under her wings, but you were unwilling!

Deuteronomy 29:22

all its soil burned out by sulphur and salt, unsown and unfruitful, without a blade of grass, like the catastrophe of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his furious wrath—

Deuteronomy 29:23

they and all the nations will ask, “Why has the Lord dealt thus with this land? Why this great outburst of wrath?”

Deuteronomy 32:36

Surely, the Lord will do justice for his people; on his servants he will have pity. When he sees their strength is gone, and neither bond nor free is left,

2 Peter 2:6

and if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah [to destruction], reducing them to ashes, making them an example for the godless [people] of what is coming;

Jude 1:7

Likewise, Sodom, Gomorrah, and the surrounding towns, which, in the same manner as they, indulged in sexual promiscuity and practiced unnatural vice, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

Revelation 11:8

Their corpses will lie in the main street of the great city, which has the symbolic names “Sodom” and “Egypt,” where indeed their Lord was crucified.

Revelation 18:18

and cried out when they saw the smoke of her pyre, “What city could compare with the great city?”

Judges 10:16

And they cast out the foreign gods from their midst and served the Lord, so that he grieved over the misery of Israel.