KJV King James Version
I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I [am] God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Hosea 11:9
I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I [am] God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
I will not execute the full fury of My anger; I will not destroy Ephraim again. For I am God and not man—the Holy One among you—and I will not come in wrath.
WEB World English Bible
I will not execute the fierceness of my anger. I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of you; and I will not come in wrath.
ASV American Standard Version
I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee; and I will not come in wrath.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
I do not the fierceness of My anger, I turn not back to destroy Ephraim, For God I am, and not a man. In thy midst the Holy One, and I enter not in enmity,
Surrounding context — Hosea 11
6 And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour [them], because of their own counsels.
7 And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt [him].
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.
9 I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I [am] God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city.
10 They shall walk after the LORD: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west.
11 They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria: and I will place them in their houses, saith the LORD.
12 Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints.
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לֹ֤אH3808 · lonotאֶֽעֱשֶׂה֙H6213 · a.sahto make: doחֲר֣וֹןH2740 · cha.ronburning angerאַפִּ֔יH639 · aphface: angerלֹ֥אH3808 · lonotאָשׁ֖וּבH7725 · shuvto return: returnלְשַׁחֵ֣תH7843 · sha.chatto ruinאֶפְרָ֑יִםH669 · eph.ra.yimEphraimכִּ֣יH3588 · kiforאֵ֤לH410 · elGodאָֽנֹכִי֙H595 · a.no.khiIוְלֹא־H3808 · lonotאִ֔ישׁH376 · ishmanבְּקִרְבְּךָ֣H7130 · qe.reventrails: amongקָד֔וֹשׁH6918 · qa.doshholyוְלֹ֥אH3808 · lonotאָב֖וֹאH935 · boto come (in): comeבְּעִֽיר׃H5892 · irexcitement
Cross-references
Numbers 23:19God [is] not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do [it]? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?Isaiah 55:8-9For my thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither [are] your ways my ways, saith the LORD.Micah 7:18-20Who [is] a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth [in] mercy.Isaiah 12:6Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great [is] the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.Jeremiah 30:11For I [am] with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished.Malachi 3:6For I [am] the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.Ezekiel 37:27-28My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.Zephaniah 3:15-17The LORD hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king of Israel, [even] the LORD, [is] in the midst of thee: thou shalt not see evil any more.Hosea 14:4I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.Romans 11:28-29As concerning the gospel, [they are] enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, [they are] beloved for the fathers’ sakes.Jeremiah 31:1-3At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.Exodus 32:10-14Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.Deuteronomy 32:26-27I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:1 Samuel 26:8Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not [smite] him the second time.2 Samuel 20:10But Amasa took no heed to the sword that [was] in Joab’s hand: so he smote him therewith in the fifth [rib], and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.Deuteronomy 13:17And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;Isaiah 27:4-8Fury [is] not in me: who would set the briers [and] thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.Ezekiel 20:21-23Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which [if] a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
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