Hosea 11:8 - Modern English Version

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 Zeboyim? My heart churns within Me; My compassion is stirred.

Tuilleadh leaganacha

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 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 14:8

Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboyim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) came out, and they joined together in battle in the Valley of Siddim

2 Samuel 24:16

When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord relented from the calamity. He said to the angel who was annihilating the people, “Enough! Now stay your hand.” The angel of the Lord was at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

1 Kings 3:26

Then the woman whose child was the living one spoke to the king, for she yearned with compassion for her son, and she said, “O my lord, give her the living child, and do not kill it.” But the other said, “Let it be neither mine nor yours and divide it.”

2 Kings 13:23

But the Lord was gracious to them and had compassion on them. He turned toward them because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not yet destroy them or cast them from His presence.

2 Chronicles 36:15

The Lord God of their fathers sent warnings to them over and over again by His messengers because He had compassion on His people and His dwelling place.

Psalm 106:45

For their sake He remembered His covenant, and relented according to the greatness of His mercy.

Isaiah 16:11

Therefore my heart shall sound like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir Hareseth.

Isaiah 63:15

Look down from heaven and see, from Your holy and glorious habitation. Where are Your zeal and Your strength? The stirrings of Your heart and Your mercies toward me are restrained.

Jeremiah 18:8

If that nation against which I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I thought to do to it.

Jeremiah 3:12

Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say: Return, backsliding Israel, says the Lord, and I will not cause My anger to fall on you. For I am merciful, says the Lord, and I will not keep anger forever.

Jeremiah 31:20

Is Ephraim My dear son? Is he a pleasant child? For since I spoke against him, I still remember him; therefore My heart longs for him. I will surely have mercy on him, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 42:10

If you will still abide in this land, then I will build you up and not pull you down, and I will plant you and not pluck you up; for I will relent of the disaster that I have brought on you.

Jeremiah 9:6

Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know Me, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:7

Therefore thus says the Lord of Hosts: Behold, I will refine them and assay them; for what else shall I do for the daughter of My people?

Lamentations 1:20

Look, O  Lord, for I am in distress; my soul is greatly troubled; my heart is overturned within me, for I have grievously rebelled. In the street the sword bereaves, at home it is like death.

Lamentations 3:32

But though He causes grief, yet He will have compassion according to the abundance of His mercies.

Lamentations 3:33

For He does not afflict from His heart, nor grieve the sons of men.

Ezekiel 33:11

Say to them: As I live, says the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, O house of Israel?

Ezekiel 6:9

Those of you who escape shall remember Me among the nations wherever they shall be carried captive, because I am broken by their whorish heart which has departed from Me, and with their eyes which play the harlot after their idols. And they shall loathe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.

Hosea 6:4

What shall I do to you, O Ephraim? What shall I do to you, O Judah? Your faithfulness is like a morning cloud, and like the early dew it goes away.

Hosea 7:1

When I would heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed, and the wickedness of Samaria. For they deal deceitfully; the thief breaks in; the robbers raid outside,

Amos 4:11

I destroyed some of you, as God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a firebrand plucked out of the fire; yet you did not return to Me, says the Lord.

Amos 7:3

The Lord relented concerning this: “It shall not be,” said the Lord.

Amos 7:6

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

Micah 5:3

Therefore He will give them up, until the time when she who is in labor has given birth, and the rest of his brothers will return to the Israelites.

Zephaniah 2:9

Therefore, as I live, says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomorrah— a land of weeds and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of My people will plunder them, and the survivors of My nation will possess them.

Matthew 23:37

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you, how often I would have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would not!

Deuteronomy 29:22

The generation to come, your children who will rise up after you and the foreigner who will come from a far land, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the Lord has laid on it, will say,

Deuteronomy 29:23

“The whole land is brimstone and salt, a burning waste, unsown and unproductive, and no grass grows there, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and wrath.”

Deuteronomy 32:36

For the Lord will judge His people, and relent in regard to His servants, when He sees that their power is gone and there is no one left, whether restrained or free.

2 Peter 2:6

and if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, making them an example to those afterward who would live ungodly lives;

Jude 1:7

Just as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the surrounding cities in like manner, gave themselves to immorality and went after different flesh, they serve as an example by suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

Revelation 11:8

Their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.

Revelation 18:18

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

Judges 10:16

They removed the foreign gods from among them and worshipped the Lord, and He could no longer endure the suffering of Israel.