Hosea 11:9

Geneva Bible (1560)

I wil not execute ye fiercenesse of my wrath: I will not returne to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man, the holy one in the middes of thee, and I will not enter into the citie.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לֹ֤א אֶֽעֱשֶׂה֙ חֲר֣וֹן אַפִּ֔י לֹ֥א אָשׁ֖וּב לְשַׁחֵ֣ת אֶפְרָ֑יִם כִּ֣י אֵ֤ל אָֽנֹכִי֙ וְלֹא־אִ֔ישׁ בְּקִרְבְּךָ֣ קָד֔וֹשׁ וְלֹ֥א אָב֖וֹא בְּעִֽיר׃

Transliteration

Not I-ʾeʿĕśeh ḥărôn ʾappî not I-ʾāšûb to-šaḥēt ʾEfrayim for ʾēl ʾānōkî and-not-ʾîš in-qirbəkā qādôš and-not I-ʾābôʾ in-ʿîr.

Grammar Details

• *lōʾ*: negative particle - not
• *ʾeʿĕśeh*: verb, qal imperfect 1st person singular - I will do/execute
• *ḥărôn*: noun, masculine singular construct - fierceness/burning
• *ʾappî*: noun, masculine singular construct with 1st person singular suffix - my anger/nose
• *ʾāšûb*: verb, qal imperfect 1st person singular - I will return/turn back
• *lə-*: preposition prefix - to
• *šaḥēt*: verb, piel infinitive construct - destroy
• *ʾEfrayim*: proper noun - Ephraim
• *kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *ʾēl*: noun, masculine singular - God/deity
• *ʾānōkî*: personal pronoun, 1st person singular - I/I myself
• *wə-lōʾ-*: conjunction with negative particle - and not
• *ʾîš*: noun, masculine singular - man
• *bə-*: preposition prefix - in
• *qirbəkā*: noun, masculine singular construct with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your midst
• *qādôš*: adjective, masculine singular - holy/set apart
• *wə-*: conjunction prefix - and
• *ʾābôʾ*: verb, qal imperfect 1st person singular - I will come/enter
• *ʿîr*: noun, feminine singular - city

Word Meanings

• *ʾeʿĕśeh*: will do/execute/carry out
• *ḥărôn*: fierceness/burning/heat
• *ʾappî*: my anger/my nose/my wrath
• *ʾāšûb*: will return/turn back/again
• *šaḥēt*: destroy/ruin/corrupt
• *ʾēl*: God/deity/divine being
• *ʾānōkî*: I/I myself (emphatic)
• *ʾîš*: man/human/mortal
• *qirbəkā*: your midst/among you/your inner part
• *qādôš*: holy/set apart/sacred
• *ʾābôʾ*: will come/enter/go
• *ʿîr*: city/town/anger

Referenced Verses

• Num 23:19 : 19 God is not as man, that he should lie, neither as the sonne of man that he shoulde repent: hath he sayde and shal he not do it? and hath he spoken, and shal he not accomplish it?
• Isa 12:6 : 6 Crie out, and shoute, O inhabitant of Zion: for great is ye holy one of Israel in the middes of thee.
• Jer 30:11 : 11 For I am with thee, sayth the Lord, to saue thee: though I vtterly destroy all the nations where I haue scattered thee, yet will I not vtterly destroy thee, but I will correct thee by iudgement, and not vtterly cut thee off.
• Exod 32:10-14 : 10 Nowe therefore let mee alone, that my wrath may waxe hote against them, for I wil consume the: but I wil make of thee a mighty people. 11 But Moses praied vnto the Lord his God, and said, O Lord, why doeth thy wrath waxe hote against thy people, which thou hast brought out of the lande of Egypt, with great power and with a mightie hand? 12 Wherefore shall the Egyptians speake, and say, He hath brought them out maliciously for to slay them in the mountaines, and to consume them from the earth? turne from thy fearce wrath, and change thy minde from this euill towarde thy people. 13 Remember Abraham, Izhak, and Israel thy seruants, to whom thou swarest by thine owne selfe, and saydest vnto them, I wil multiply your seede, as the starres of the heauen, & all this land, that I haue spoken of, wil I giue vnto your seede, and they shal inherit it for euer. 14 Then the Lord changed his minde fro the euil, which he threatned to do vnto his people.
• Isa 55:8-9 : 8 For my thoughtes are not your thoughts, neither are your wayes my wayes, sayth the Lord. 9 For as ye heauens are higher then the earth, so are my wayes higher then your wayes, and my thoughtes aboue your thoughts.
• Mal 3:6 : 6 For I am the Lord: I change not, and ye sonnes of Iaakob are not consumed.
• Rom 11:28-29 : 28 As concerning the Gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloued for the fathers sakes. 29 For the giftes and calling of God are without repentance.
• Isa 27:4-8 : 4 Anger is not in mee: who would set the briers & the thornes against me in battel? I would go through them, I would burne them together. 5 Or will he feele my strength, that he may make peace with me, and be at one with me? 6 Hereafter, Iaakob shall take roote: Israel shall florish and growe, and the world shall be filled with fruite. 7 Hath hee smitten him as hee smote those that smote him? or is hee slaine according to the slaughter of them that were slaine by him? 8 In measure in the branches thereof wilt thou contende with it, when he bloweth with his rough winde in the day of the East winde.
• Isa 48:9 : 9 For my Names sake will I defer my wrath, and for my praise will I refraine it from thee, that I cut thee not off.
• Deut 13:17 : 17 And there shall cleaue nothing of ye damned thing to thine hand, that the Lord may turne from the fiercenes of his wrath, and shewe thee mercie, and haue compassion on thee and multiplie thee, as he hath sworne vnto thy fathers:
• Deut 32:26-27 : 26 I haue said, I would scatter them abroade: I would make their remembrance to cease from among men, 27 Saue that I feared the furie of the enemie, least their aduersaries should waxe proude, and least they should say, Our hie hande and not the Lorde hath done all this:
• 1 Sam 26:8 : 8 Then saide Abishai to Dauid, God hath closed thine enemie into thine hande this day: now therefore, I pray thee, let me smite him once with a speare to the earth, and I will not smite him againe.
• 2 Sam 20:10 : 10 But Amasa tooke no heede to the sworde that was in Ioabs hande: for therewith he smote him in the fift rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and smote him not the second time: so he dyed. then Ioab and Abishai his brother followed after Sheba the sonne of Bichri.
• Ps 78:38 : 38 Yet he being merciful forgaue their iniquitie, & destroied them not, but oft times called backe his anger, & did not stirre vp all his wrath.
• Jer 31:1-3 : 1 At the same time, saith the Lorde, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people. 2 Thus saith the Lord, The people which escaped the sworde, founde grace in the wildernes: he walked before Israel to cause him to rest. 3 The Lord hath appeared vnto me of old, say they: Yea, I haue loued thee with an euerlasting loue, therefore with mercie I haue drawen thee.
• Ezek 20:8-9 : 8 But they rebelled against me, & would not heare me: for none cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idoles of Egypt: then I thought to powre out mine indignation vpon them, & to accomplish my wrath against them in the mids of the land of Egypt. 9 But I had respect to my Name, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whome they were, & in whose sight I made my selfe knowen vnto them in bringing them forth of the land of Egypt.
• Ezek 20:13-14 : 13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wildernes: they walked not in my statutes, and they cast away my iudgements, which if a man doe, he shall liue in them, and my Sabbaths haue they greatly polluted: then I thought to powre out mine indignation vpon them in the wildernes to consume them, 14 But I had respect to my Name, that it shoulde not bee polluted before the heathen in whose sight I brought them out.
• Ezek 20:21-23 : 21 Notwithstanding the children rebelled against mee: they walked not in my statutes, nor kept my iudgements to doe them, which if a man doe, hee shall liue in them, but they polluted my Sabbaths: then I thought to powre out mine indignation vpo them, and to accomplish my wrath against them in the wildernes. 22 Neuerthelesse I withdrew mine hand & had respect to my Name that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them foorth. 23 Yet I lift vp mine hande vnto them in the wildernes, that I would scatter them among the heathen, & disperse them through the countreys,
• Ezek 37:27-28 : 27 My tabernacle also shalbe with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shalbe my people. 28 Thus the heathen shall knowe, that I the Lord do sanctifie Israel, when my Sanctuarie shall be among them for euermore.
• Hos 14:4 : 4 (14:5) I wil heale their rebellion: I wil loue them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
• Mic 7:18-20 : 18 Who is a God like vnto thee, that taketh away iniquitie, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage! He reteineth not his wrath for euer, because mercie pleaseth him. 19 He will turne againe, and haue compassion vpon vs: he will subdue our iniquities, and cast all their sinnes into the bottome of the sea. 20 Thou wilt perfourme thy trueth to Iaakob, and mercie to Abraham, as thou hast sworne vnto our fathers in olde time.
• Zeph 3:15-17 : 15 The Lorde hath taken away thy iudgements: hee hath cast out thine enemie: the King of Israel, euen the Lord is in the middes of thee: thou shalt see no more euill. 16 In that day it shalbe said to Ierusalem, Feare thou not, O Zion: let not thine handes be faint. 17 The Lord thy God in the middes of thee is mightie: hee will saue, hee will reioyce ouer thee with ioye: he will quiet himselfe in his loue: he will reioyce ouer thee with ioy.