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How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I treat you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboyim? My heart is changed within me; all my compassion is aroused. <a href="/nlt/hosea/11.htm">New Living Translation</a> “Oh, how can I give you up, Israel? How can I let you go? How can I destroy you like Admah or demolish you like Zeboiim? My heart is torn within me, and my compassion overflows. <a href="/esv/hosea/11.htm">English Standard Version</a> How can I give you up, O Ephraim? How can I hand you over, O Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart recoils within me; my compassion grows warm and tender. <a href="/bsb/hosea/11.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> How could I give you up, O Ephraim? How could I surrender you, O Israel? How could I make you like Admah? How could I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within Me; My compassion is stirred! <a href="/kjv/hosea/11.htm">King James Bible</a> 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. <a href="/nkjv/hosea/11.htm">New King James Version</a> “How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I set you like Zeboiim? My heart churns within Me; My sympathy is stirred. <a href="/nasb_/hosea/11.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I surrender you, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned over within Me, All My compassions are kindled. <a href="/nasb/hosea/11.htm">NASB 1995</a> How can I give you up, O Ephraim? How can I surrender you, O Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned over within Me, All My compassions are kindled. <a href="/nasb77/hosea/11.htm">NASB 1977 </a> How can I give you up, O Ephraim? How can I surrender you, O Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned over within Me, All My compassions are kindled. <a href="/lsb/hosea/11.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> How can I give you up, O Ephraim? How can I surrender you, O Israel? How can I give you over to be like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned over within Me; All My compassions are stirred. <a href="/amp/hosea/11.htm">Amplified Bible</a> How can I give you up, O Ephraim? How can I surrender you, O Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart recoils within Me; All My compassions are kindled together [for My nation of Israel]. <a href="/csb/hosea/11.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I surrender you, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? I have had a change of heart; my compassion is stirred! <a href="/hcsb/hosea/11.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I surrender you, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? I have had a change of heart; My compassion is stirred! <a href="/asv/hosea/11.htm">American Standard Version</a> 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. <a href="/cev/hosea/11.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> Israel, I can't let you go. I can't give you up. How could I possibly destroy you as I did the towns of Admah and Zeboiim? I just can't do it. My feelings for you are much too strong. <a href="/erv/hosea/11.htm">English Revised Version</a> 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 compassions are kindled together. <a href="/gwt/hosea/11.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> "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 Zeboim? I have changed my mind. I am deeply moved. <a href="/gnt/hosea/11.htm">Good News Translation</a> "How can I give you up, Israel? How can I abandon you? Could I ever destroy you as I did Admah, or treat you as I did Zeboiim? My heart will not let me do it! My love for you is too strong. <a href="/isv/hosea/11.htm">International Standard Version</a> "How can I give up on you, Ephraim? I will deliver you, will I not, Israel? How can I treat you like Admah? I can't make you like Zeboim, can I? My heart stirs within me; my compassion also fans into flame! <a href="/msb/hosea/11.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> How could I give you up, O Ephraim? How could I surrender you, O Israel? How could I make you like Admah? How could I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within Me; My compassion is stirred! <a href="/net/hosea/11.htm">NET Bible</a> How can I give you up, 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! All my tender compassions are aroused! <a href="/nheb/hosea/11.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> "How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused. <a href="/wbt/hosea/11.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> 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? my heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together. <a href="/web/hosea/11.htm">World English Bible</a> “How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/hosea/11.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> How do I give you up, O Ephraim? Do I deliver you up, O Israel? How do I make you as Admah? Do I set you as Zeboim? My heart is turned in Me, "" My sympathy has been kindled together. <a href="/ylt/hosea/11.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> How do I give thee up, O Ephraim? Do I deliver thee up, O Israel? How do I make thee as Admah? Do I set thee as Zeboim? Turned in Me is My heart, kindled together have been My repentings. <a href="/slt/hosea/11.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> How shall I give thee up, O Ephraim? Shall I deliver thee over, O Israel? How shall I give thee as the earth? Shall I set thee as roes? My heart was turned upon me; my grievings were kindled together.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/hosea/11.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> How shall I deal with thee, O Ephraim, shall I protect thee, O Israel? how shall I make thee as Adama, shall I set thee as Seboim? my heart is turned within me, my repentance is stirred up. <a href="/cpdv/hosea/11.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> 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. <a href="/nabre/hosea/11.htm">New American Bible</a> 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. <a href="/nrsvce/hosea/11.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, O Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart recoils within me; my compassion grows warm and tender.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/hosea/11.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> How shall I uphold you, O Ephraim? How shall I help you, O Israel? How shall I make you as Adamah? How shall I set you as Zeboim? My heart is turned within me, my tender mercies are moved. <a href="/hpbt/hosea/11.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> How shall I support you Aphreim, or how shall I help you Israel, or how shall I make you as Adma or as Tseboim? My heart has been turned and my compassions within<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/hosea/11.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? How shall I surrender thee, Israel? How shall I make thee as Admah? How shall I set thee as Zeboim? My heart is turned within Me, My compassions are kindled together. <a href="/sep/hosea/11.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> How shall I deal with thee, Ephraim? how shall I protect thee, Israel? what shall I do with thee? I will make thee as Adama, and as Seboim; my heart is turned at once, my repentance is powerfully excited. <a href="/parallel/hosea/11-8.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xpPG1oLnpGk?start=1735" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/hosea/11.htm">God's Mercy On Israel</a> 8<a href="/hebrew/349.htm" title="349: ’êḵ (Interjection) -- How?. Also eykah; and teykakah; prolonged from 'ay; how? Or how!; also where.">How</a> <a href="/hebrew/5414.htm" title="5414: ’et·ten·ḵā (V-Qal-Imperf-1cs:: 2ms) -- To give, put, set. A primitive root; to give, used with greatest latitude of application.">could I give you up,</a> <a href="/hebrew/669.htm" title="669: ’ep̄·ra·yim (N-proper-ms) -- Dual of masculine form of 'Ephraath; double fruit; Ephrajim, a son of Joseph; also the tribe descended from him, and its territory.">O Ephraim?</a> <a href="/hebrew/4042.htm" title="4042: ’ă·mag·gen·ḵā (V-Piel-Imperf-1cs:: 2ms) -- A denominative from magen; properly, to shield; encompass with; figuratively, to rescue, to hand safely over.">How could I surrender you,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3478.htm" title="3478: yiś·rā·’êl (N-proper-ms) -- From sarah and 'el; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also of his posterity.">O Israel?</a> <a href="/hebrew/349.htm" title="349: ’êḵ (Interjection) -- How?. Also eykah; and teykakah; prolonged from 'ay; how? Or how!; also where.">How</a> <a href="/hebrew/5414.htm" title="5414: ’et·ten·ḵā (V-Qal-Imperf-1cs:: 2ms) -- To give, put, set. A primitive root; to give, used with greatest latitude of application.">could I make</a> <a href="/hebrew/126.htm" title="126: ḵə·’aḏ·māh (Prep-k:: N-proper-fs) -- A city near Sodom and Gomorrah. Contracted for 'adamah; earthy; Admah, a place near the Dead Sea.">you like Admah?</a> <a href="/hebrew/7760.htm" title="7760: ’ă·śî·mə·ḵā (V-Qal-Imperf-1cs:: 2ms) -- To put, place, set. Or siym; a primitive root; to put.">How could I treat</a> <a href="/hebrew/6636.htm" title="6636: kiṣ·ḇō·yim (Prep-k:: N-proper-fs) -- A place near Sodom. Or Tsbiyiym; or Tsbiyim; plural of tsbiy; gazelles; Tseboim or Tsebijim, a place in Palestine.">you like Zeboiim?</a> <a href="/hebrew/3820.htm" title="3820: lib·bî (N-msc:: 1cs) -- A form of lebab; the heart; also used very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything.">My heart</a> <a href="/hebrew/2015.htm" title="2015: neh·paḵ (V-Nifal-Perf-3ms) -- To turn, overturn. A primitive root; to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert.">is turned</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘ā·lay (Prep:: 1cs) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">within Me;</a> <a href="/hebrew/3162.htm" title="3162: ya·ḥaḏ (Adv) -- Unitedness. From yachad; properly, a unit, i.e. unitedly."></a> <a href="/hebrew/5150.htm" title="5150: ni·ḥū·māy (N-mpc:: 1cs) -- Comfort, compassion. Or nichum; from nacham; properly, consoled; abstractly, solace.">My compassion</a> <a href="/hebrew/3648.htm" title="3648: niḵ·mə·rū (V-Nifal-Perf-3cp) -- A primitive root; properly, to intertwine or contract, i.e. to shrivel; figuratively, to be deeply affected with passion.">is stirred!</a> 9I will not execute the full fury of My anger; I will not turn back to destroy Ephraim. For I am God and not man—the Holy One among you—and I will not come in wrath.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/jeremiah/31-20.htm">Jeremiah 31:20</a> Is not Ephraim a precious son to Me, a delightful child? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore My heart yearns for him; I have great compassion for him,” declares the LORD. <a href="/isaiah/63-15.htm">Isaiah 63:15-16</a> Look down from heaven and see, from Your holy and glorious habitation. Where are Your zeal and might? Your yearning and compassion for me are restrained. / Yet You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O LORD, are our Father; our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name. <a href="/lamentations/3-32.htm">Lamentations 3:32-33</a> Even if He causes grief, He will show compassion according to His abundant loving devotion. / For He does not willingly afflict or grieve the sons of men. <a href="/ezekiel/18-23.htm">Ezekiel 18:23</a> Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Lord GOD. Wouldn’t I prefer that he turn from his ways and live? <a href="/isaiah/49-15.htm">Isaiah 49:15</a> “Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not forget you! <a href="/micah/7-18.htm">Micah 7:18-19</a> Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion? / He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea. <a href="/zechariah/1-14.htm">Zechariah 1:14-16</a> Then the angel who was speaking with me said, “Proclaim this word: This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘I am very jealous for Jerusalem and Zion, / but I am fiercely angry with the nations that are at ease. For I was a little angry, but they have added to the calamity.’ / Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I will return to Jerusalem with mercy, and there My house will be rebuilt, declares the LORD of Hosts, and a measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem.’ <a href="/isaiah/54-7.htm">Isaiah 54:7-8</a> “For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will bring you back. / In a surge of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,” says the LORD your Redeemer. <a href="/jeremiah/3-12.htm">Jeremiah 3:12-14</a> Go, proclaim this message toward the north: ‘Return, O faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will no longer look on you with anger, for I am merciful,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will not be angry forever. / Only acknowledge your guilt, that you have rebelled against the LORD your God. You have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every green tree and have not obeyed My voice,’” declares the LORD. / “Return, O faithless children,” declares the LORD, “for I am your master, and I will take you—one from a city and two from a family—and bring you to Zion. <a href="/psalms/103-13.htm">Psalm 103:13-14</a> As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him. / For He knows our frame; He is mindful that we are dust. <a href="/matthew/23-37.htm">Matthew 23:37</a> O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling! <a href="/luke/15-20.htm">Luke 15:20</a> So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still in the distance, his father saw him and was filled with compassion. He ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him. <a href="/romans/9-1.htm">Romans 9:1-3</a> I speak the truth in Christ; I am not lying, as confirmed by my conscience in the Holy Spirit. / I have deep sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. / For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my own flesh and blood, <a href="/2_peter/3-9.htm">2 Peter 3:9</a> The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise as some understand slowness, but is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish but everyone to come to repentance. <a href="/john/3-16.htm">John 3:16-17</a> For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. / For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>How shall I give you up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver you, Israel? how shall I make you as Admah? how shall I set you as Zeboim? my heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together.How shall I give.<a href="/hosea/6-4.htm">Hosea 6:4</a> O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.<a href="/jeremiah/9-7.htm">Jeremiah 9:7</a> Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?<a href="/lamentations/3-33.htm">Lamentations 3:33</a> For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.Admah.<a href="/genesis/14-8.htm">Genesis 14:8</a> And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar;) and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim;<a href="/genesis/19-24.htm">Genesis 19:24,25</a> Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; … <a href="/deuteronomy/29-23.htm">Deuteronomy 29:23</a> And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:Mine.<a href="/deuteronomy/32-36.htm">Deuteronomy 32:36</a> For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.<a href="/judges/10-16.htm">Judges 10:16</a> And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.<a href="/2_samuel/24-16.htm">2 Samuel 24:16</a> And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.heart.<a href="/lamentations/1-20.htm">Lamentations 1:20</a> Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/deuteronomy/29-23.htm">Admah</a> <a href="/ezekiel/38-18.htm">Aroused</a> <a href="/hosea/9-17.htm">Cast</a> <a href="/hosea/11-4.htm">Compassion</a> <a href="/daniel/9-18.htm">Compassions</a> <a href="/hosea/5-14.htm">Deliver</a> <a href="/hosea/11-3.htm">Ephraim</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-7.htm">Grows</a> <a href="/hosea/7-5.htm">Hand</a> <a href="/hosea/10-2.htm">Heart</a> <a href="/hosea/11-2.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/hosea/8-5.htm">Kindled</a> <a href="/psalms/7-16.htm">Recoils</a> <a href="/jeremiah/38-21.htm">Surrender</a> <a href="/daniel/4-23.htm">Tender</a> <a href="/hosea/11-7.htm">Together</a> <a href="/daniel/1-13.htm">Treat</a> <a href="/hosea/10-12.htm">Turned</a> <a href="/hosea/7-7.htm">Warm</a> <a href="/hosea/5-4.htm">Within</a> <a href="/1_samuel/13-18.htm">Zeboiim</a> <a href="/genesis/14-8.htm">Zeboi'im</a> <a href="/nehemiah/11-34.htm">Zeboim</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/genesis/10-19.htm">Admah</a> <a href="/joel/3-12.htm">Aroused</a> <a href="/hosea/12-14.htm">Cast</a> <a href="/hosea/13-14.htm">Compassion</a> <a href="/zechariah/1-16.htm">Compassions</a> <a href="/amos/1-6.htm">Deliver</a> <a href="/hosea/11-9.htm">Ephraim</a> <a href="/nahum/2-10.htm">Grows</a> <a href="/hosea/12-7.htm">Hand</a> <a href="/hosea/13-6.htm">Heart</a> <a href="/hosea/11-12.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/amos/1-14.htm">Kindled</a> <a href="/psalms/7-16.htm">Recoils</a> <a href="/romans/6-13.htm">Surrender</a> <a href="/matthew/24-32.htm">Tender</a> <a href="/joel/2-16.htm">Together</a> <a href="/nahum/3-6.htm">Treat</a> <a href="/hosea/14-4.htm">Turned</a> <a href="/haggai/1-6.htm">Warm</a> <a href="/amos/3-9.htm">Within</a> <a href="/genesis/10-19.htm">Zeboiim</a> <a href="/genesis/10-19.htm">Zeboi'im</a> <a href="/genesis/10-19.htm">Zeboim</a><div class="vheading2">Hosea 11</div>1. <a href="/hosea/11-1.htm">The ingratitude of Israel unto God for his benefits.</a> 5. <a href="/hosea/11-5.htm">His judgment.</a> 8. <a href="/hosea/11-8.htm">God's mercy toward them.</a> 12. <a href="/hosea/11-12.htm">Israel's falsehood and Judah's fidelity.</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/hosea/11.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/hosea/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/hosea/11.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>How could I give you up, O Ephraim? Ephraim represents the northern kingdom of Israel, often used synonymously with Israel itself. This rhetorical question highlights God's deep love and reluctance to abandon His people despite their persistent unfaithfulness. The name Ephraim, meaning "fruitful," reflects the tribe's significant role and God's desire for their prosperity. This echoes God's covenantal faithfulness, reminiscent of His promises to the patriarchs.How could I surrender you, O Israel? Israel, the chosen nation, is at the heart of God's redemptive plan. The term "surrender" suggests a military defeat or handing over to enemies, which God is reluctant to do. This reflects the tension between divine justice and mercy. Historically, Israel faced numerous threats, yet God's protective hand often intervened, as seen in the Exodus and the conquest of Canaan.How could I make you like Admah? Admah was one of the cities destroyed alongside Sodom and Gomorrah (<a href="/genesis/14-8.htm">Genesis 14:8, 19</a>:24-25). Mentioning Admah serves as a warning of total destruction due to sin. However, God's rhetorical question implies His desire to spare Israel from such a fate, emphasizing His mercy over judgment.How could I treat you like Zeboiim? Zeboiim, like Admah, was destroyed due to wickedness. The reference underscores the severity of Israel's sin but also highlights God's reluctance to enact such judgment. This reflects God's consistent character of offering repentance and restoration, as seen in the story of Nineveh (Jonah 3).My heart is turned within Me; This phrase reveals the emotional depth of God's relationship with Israel. The turning of God's heart indicates a profound internal struggle between His justice and mercy. It reflects the divine pathos, showing that God's decisions are not detached or unemotional but deeply personal and compassionate.My compassion is stirred! God's compassion, or "rachamim" in Hebrew, is a central attribute, often associated with a mother's love. This stirring of compassion indicates a movement towards mercy and forgiveness. It aligns with God's self-revelation in <a href="/exodus/34-6.htm">Exodus 34:6-7</a>, where He describes Himself as "compassionate and gracious." This compassion ultimately points to the redemptive work of Christ, who embodies God's mercy and offers salvation to all.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/e/ephraim.htm">Ephraim</a> Represents the northern kingdom of Israel, often used synonymously with Israel in the prophetic books. Ephraim was the largest tribe and thus symbolized the whole nation. 2. <a href="/topical/i/israel.htm">Israel</a> The chosen people of God, often depicted in the Old Testament as a nation that struggles with faithfulness to God. 3. <a href="/topical/a/admah_and_zeboiim.htm">Admah and Zeboiim</a> Cities that were destroyed alongside Sodom and Gomorrah (<a href="/genesis/14-8.htm">Genesis 14:8</a>, <a href="/deuteronomy/29-23.htm">Deuteronomy 29:23</a>). They symbolize complete destruction and divine judgment. 4. <a href="/topical/g/god's_compassion.htm">God's Compassion</a> The verse highlights God's deep emotional struggle and compassion for His people, despite their unfaithfulness. 5. <a href="/topical/p/prophet_hosea.htm">Prophet Hosea</a> A prophet in the 8th century BC, whose life and message were a demonstration of God's love and faithfulness to unfaithful Israel.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/g/god's_reluctance_to_punish.htm">God's Reluctance to Punish</a> Despite Israel's unfaithfulness, God is deeply reluctant to bring about their destruction. This highlights His patience and desire for repentance rather than punishment. <a href="/topical/d/divine_compassion.htm">Divine Compassion</a> God's heart is portrayed as compassionate and loving, even when His people are rebellious. This serves as a model for how we should approach others with grace and mercy. <a href="/topical/t/the_consequences_of_sin.htm">The Consequences of Sin</a> The mention of Admah and Zeboiim serves as a stark reminder of the consequences of persistent sin and rebellion against God. <a href="/topical/h/hope_for_restoration.htm">Hope for Restoration</a> God's compassion indicates that there is always hope for restoration and redemption, no matter how far one has strayed. <a href="/topical/r/reflecting_god's_heart.htm">Reflecting God's Heart</a> As believers, we are called to reflect God's heart of compassion and mercy in our interactions with others, especially those who have wronged us.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_hosea_11.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Hosea 11</a> <a href="/q/how_does_hosea_11_8-9_align_with_god's_judgments.htm">How does Hosea 11:8–9’s portrayal of divine compassion align with Old Testament passages describing God’s severe judgments? </a> <a href="/q/what_were_admah_and_zeboiim.htm">What were Admah and Zeboiim in biblical history?</a> <a href="/q/does_hosea_13_7-8_show_god_as_loving.htm">Hosea 13:7–8: Does the graphic depiction of God as a devouring predator align with a loving deity, or does it represent an inconsistency in the biblical portrayal of God’s character? </a> <a href="/q/what_does_divine_impassibility_mean.htm">What does divine impassibility mean?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/hosea/11.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(8) In the depth of despair the prophet delivers himself of one of the most pathetic passages in Hebrew prophecy. On the darkest cloud gleams the bow of promise. A nation so much beloved as Israel cannot be destroyed by Him who has fostered it so tenderly. As the prophet loved his faithless bride, so Jehovah continued to love His people. The "how?" of this verse expresses the most extreme reluctance. Admah and Zeboim were cities of the plain destroyed with Sodom and Gomorrah, which are often referred to as the type of irremediable catastrophe. (Comp. <a href="/isaiah/1-9.htm" title="Except the LORD of hosts had left to us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like to Gomorrah.">Isaiah 1:9</a>; <a href="/isaiah/13-19.htm" title="And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.">Isaiah 13:19</a>; <a href="/matthew/10-15.htm" title="Truly I say to you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.">Matthew 10:15</a>.)Mine heart is turned within me.--Better, against me--a violent revulsion of feeling. Divine compassion pleads with Divine justice.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/hosea/11.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 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? This verse paves the way for transition to promise. Although the Israelites on account of such conduct had merited complete annihilation, yet Jehovah, for his love and mercy's sake, substitutes grace for justice, and will not destroy them from off the face of the earth. One rendering (1) gives the clause the turn of an exclamation rather than of an interrogation; thus: "How readily and justly could I [or should I, or how thoroughly could I if I punished thy rebellion as I deserved] give thee up to destruction!" We prefer (2) the ordinary rendering, by which it is treated as a question: "How shall I give thee up to the power of the enemy, and not only that, but destroy thee?" Calvin's exposition seems indeed to favor the former: "Here," he says, "God consults what he is to do with the people; and first, indeed, he shows that it was his purpose to execute vengeance such as the Israelites deserved, even wholly to destroy them; but yet he assumes the character of one deliberating, that none might think that he hastily fell into anger, or that, being soon excited by excessive fury, he devoted to ruin those who had lightly sinned, or were guilty of no great crimes By these expressions of the text God shows what the Israelites deserved, and that he was now inclined to inflict the punishment of which they were worthy, and yet not without repentance, or at least not without hesitation. He afterwards adds in the next clause, This I will not do; my heart is within me changed." Mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together. The עַל, literally, "upon," "with," then, "in," or "within:" "My heart is turned or changed from anger to pity in me." The expression, יַהַד נִכְמְרוּ, signifies, according to Rashi, "one warmed," as in <a href="/genesis/43-30.htm">Genesis 43:30</a>, where this same word is rendered in the Authorized Version," yearned:" "His bowels did yearn upon his brother," or "warmed towards." But (2) many modern interpreters understand the word in the sense of" gathering themselves together:" "The feelings of compassion gathered themselves together;" nichumim, from Piel נִחֵם, a noun of the form הבוד, less definite than rachamim, bowels, as the seat of the emotions, "gathered themselves together," or "were excited all at once." The cities of the plain included Admah and Zeboim, Sodom and Gomorrah, all of which, in consequence of their sins, were overthrown and perished in one common calamity. In <a href="/deuteronomy/29-23.htm">Deuteronomy 29:23</a> these cities are all named, though Admah and Zeboim are not mentioned by name in the narrative of the catastrophe contained in Genesis. Though Israel had been as guilty and deserving of wrath as these, God expresses strong reluctance to deliver them over into the hands and power of their enemies, or to give them up to destruction. His heart revolted at the thought, and turned aside from the fierceness of his anger, though so fully deserved, into the direction of mercy; a new turn was given to his feelings in the direction of compassion. All his relentings or repentings together - one and all - yearned or were at once aroused. Repenting on the part of God is an expression suited to human comprehension, implying no change of purpose on the side of God, but only a change of procedure consistent with his purpose of everlasting love. "The Law speaks in the language of the sons of men." <a href="/commentaries/hosea/11-8.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>How אֵ֞יךְ (’êḵ) Interjection <a href="/hebrew/strongs_349.htm">Strong's 349: </a> How?, how!, where can I give you up, אֶתֶּנְךָ֣ (’et·ten·ḵā) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular | second person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5414.htm">Strong's 5414: </a> To give, put, set O Ephraim? אֶפְרַ֗יִם (’ep̄·ra·yim) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_669.htm">Strong's 669: </a> Ephraim -- a son of Joseph, also his descendants and their territory How can I surrender you, אֲמַגֶּנְךָ֙ (’ă·mag·gen·ḵā) Verb - Piel - Imperfect - first person common singular | second person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4042.htm">Strong's 4042: </a> To shield, encompass with, to rescue, to hand safely over O Israel? יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל (yiś·rā·’êl) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3478.htm">Strong's 3478: </a> Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc How אֵ֚יךְ (’êḵ) Interjection <a href="/hebrew/strongs_349.htm">Strong's 349: </a> How?, how!, where can I make אֶתֶּנְךָ֣ (’et·ten·ḵā) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular | second person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5414.htm">Strong's 5414: </a> To give, put, set you like Admah? כְאַדְמָ֔ה (ḵə·’aḏ·māh) Preposition-k | Noun - proper - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_126.htm">Strong's 126: </a> Admah -- a city near Sodom and Gomorrah How can I treat אֲשִֽׂימְךָ֖ (’ă·śî·mə·ḵā) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular | second person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7760.htm">Strong's 7760: </a> Put -- to put, place, set you like Zeboiim? כִּצְבֹאיִ֑ם (kiṣ·ḇō·yim) Preposition-k | Noun - proper - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6636.htm">Strong's 6636: </a> Zeboiim -- a place near Sodom My heart לִבִּ֔י (lib·bî) Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3820.htm">Strong's 3820: </a> The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre is turned נֶהְפַּ֤ךְ (neh·paḵ) Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2015.htm">Strong's 2015: </a> To turn about, over, to change, overturn, return, pervert within Me; עָלַי֙ (‘ā·lay) Preposition | first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> Above, over, upon, against My compassion נִחוּמָֽי׃ (ni·ḥū·māy) Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5150.htm">Strong's 5150: </a> Comfort, compassion is stirred! נִכְמְר֥וּ (niḵ·mə·rū) Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3648.htm">Strong's 3648: </a> To intertwine, contract, to shrivel, to be deeply affected with passion <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/hosea/11-8.htm">Hosea 11:8 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/hosea/11-8.htm">Hosea 11:8 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/hosea/11-8.htm">Hosea 11:8 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/hosea/11-8.htm">Hosea 11:8 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/hosea/11-8.htm">Hosea 11:8 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/hosea/11-8.htm">Hosea 11:8 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/hosea/11-8.htm">Hosea 11:8 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/hosea/11-8.htm">Hosea 11:8 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/hosea/11-8.htm">Hosea 11:8 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/hosea/11-8.htm">Hosea 11:8 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/hosea/11-8.htm">OT Prophets: Hosea 11:8 How can I give you up Ephraim? 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