Hosea 11:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I deliver you, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I set you like Zeboim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is kindled together.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    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 changed within Me; My compassion grows warm and tender.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    w shall I give thee up, Ephraim? w shall I deliver thee, Israel? w shall I make thee as Admah? w shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    How shall I give thee up,{H5414} Ephraim?{H669} [how] shall I cast{H4042} thee off, Israel?{H3478} how shall I make{H5414} thee as Admah?{H126} [how] shall I set{H7760} thee as Zeboiim?{H6636} my heart{H3820} is turned{H2015} within me, my compassions{H5150} are kindled{H3648} together.{H3162}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    How shall I give thee up{H5414}{(H8799)}, Ephraim{H669}? how shall I deliver{H4042}{(H8762)} thee, Israel{H3478}? how shall I make{H5414}{(H8799)} thee as Admah{H126}? how shall I set{H7760}{(H8799)} thee as Zeboim{H6636}? mine heart{H3820} is turned{H2015}{(H8738)} within me, my repentings{H5150} are kindled{H3648}{(H8738)} together{H3162}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    What greate thinges haue I geuen the, o Ephraim? how faithfully haue I defended the, o Israel? haue I dealt with the as with Adama? or haue I intreated the like Seboim? No, my hert is otherwise mynded. Yee my mercy is to feruent:

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Howe shall I giue thee vp, Ephraim? howe shall I deliuer thee, Israel? How shall I make thee, as Admah? howe shall I set thee, as Zeboim? Mine heart is turned within mee: my repentings are rouled together.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Howe shall I geue thee vp Ephraim? howe shal I deliuer thee Israel? howe shall I make thee as Adama? howe shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentinges are kindled within me.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    ¶ 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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    "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.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    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.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    How may I give you up, O Ephraim? how may I be your saviour, O Israel? how may I make you like Admah? how may I do to you as I did to Zeboim? My heart is turned in me, it is soft with pity.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    "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.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    The Divine Dilemma: Judgment or Mercy? 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!

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 29:23 : 23 And that the whole land is brimstone, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger and in his wrath:
  • Gen 14:8 : 8 And the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar) went out and joined battle with them in the valley of Siddim;
  • Jer 31:20 : 20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spoke against him, I earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, says the LORD.
  • Hos 6:4 : 4 O Ephraim, what shall I do to you? O Judah, what shall I do to you? for your goodness is like a morning cloud, and as the early dew it vanishes.
  • Deut 32:36 : 36 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he sees that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.
  • Matt 23:37 : 37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you, how often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!
  • Jude 1:7 : 7 As Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
  • Amos 4:11 : 11 I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand plucked from the burning: yet you have not returned to me, says the LORD.
  • Gen 19:24-25 : 24 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven. 25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.
  • Lam 1:20 : 20 Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my heart is troubled; my heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaves, at home there is as death.
  • Lam 3:33 : 33 For He does not willingly afflict or grieve the children of men.
  • Amos 7:3 : 3 The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, says the LORD.
  • Amos 7:6 : 6 The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, says the Lord GOD.
  • Zeph 2:9 : 9 Therefore as I live, says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even a breeding of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation: the remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.
  • Judg 10:16 : 16 And they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD; and His soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
  • 2 Sam 24:16 : 16 And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD relented of the evil, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, It is enough; now stay your hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
  • 2 Kgs 13:23 : 23 The LORD was gracious to them, had compassion on them, and had regard for them because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and he would not destroy them, nor cast them from his presence as yet.
  • Ps 106:45 : 45 And he remembered for them his covenant, and relented according to the multitude of his mercies.
  • Isa 1:9-9 : 9 Except the LORD of hosts had left to us a very small remnant, we would have been as Sodom, and we would have been like Gomorrah. 10 Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.
  • Isa 63:15 : 15 Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory: where is your zeal and your strength, the yearning of your heart and your mercies toward me? Are they restrained?
  • Jer 3:12 : 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 upon you: for I am merciful, says the LORD, and I will not keep anger forever.
  • Jer 9:7 : 7 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and test them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?
  • Rev 11:8 : 8 And 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.
  • Rev 18:18 : 18 And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like this great city!
  • Luke 19:41-42 : 41 And when he came near, he saw the city and wept over it, 42 Saying, If you had known, even you, at least in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.
  • 2 Pet 2:6 : 6 And turned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemning them with an overthrow, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Hos 11:9
    79%

    9 I will not execute the fierceness of my anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim, for I am God, and not a man; the Holy One among you, and I will not enter the city.

  • Jer 31:18-20
    3 verses
    79%

    18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bull not accustomed to the yoke: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are the LORD my God.

    19 Surely, after I was turned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh: I was ashamed, yes, even humiliated, because I bore the reproach of my youth.

    20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spoke against him, I earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, says the LORD.

  • Hos 11:7
    79%

    7 And my people are determined to backslide from me; though they called them to the Most High, none at all would exalt him.

  • Hos 14:4
    75%

    4 I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for my anger is turned away from him.

  • Jer 3:19-21
    3 verses
    75%

    19 But I said, How shall I put you among the children and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? And I said, You shall call me, My Father; and shall not turn away from me.

    20 Surely, as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so have you dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, says the LORD.

    21 A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God.

  • Jer 15:6
    74%

    6 You have forsaken me, says the LORD, you have gone backward: therefore I will stretch out my hand against you, and destroy you; I am weary with repenting.

  • Jer 3:12
    74%

    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 upon you: for I am merciful, says the LORD, and I will not keep anger forever.

  • Jer 5:7
    74%

    7 How shall I pardon you for this? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.

  • Hos 8:5
    73%

    5 Your calf, O Samaria, has cast you off; my anger is kindled against them. How long will it be until they attain innocence?

  • Hos 6:4
    73%

    4 O Ephraim, what shall I do to you? O Judah, what shall I do to you? for your goodness is like a morning cloud, and as the early dew it vanishes.

  • Amos 4:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    11 I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand plucked from the burning: yet you have not returned to me, says the LORD.

    12 Therefore thus will I do to you, O Israel: and because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel.

  • Hos 11:1
    73%

    1 When Israel was a child, I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

  • Hos 9:15-17
    3 verses
    72%

    15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal, for there I hated them; for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my house, I will love them no more; all their princes are rebels.

    16 Ephraim is stricken, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit; yes, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.

    17 My God will cast them away, because they did not listen to him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

  • Zech 10:6
    72%

    6 And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph. I will bring them back, for I have mercy on them, and they shall be as though I had not cast them off. For I am the LORD their God, and will hear them.

  • Hos 5:14
    71%

    14 For I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.

  • Hos 13:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8 I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, and will tear the covering of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.

    9 O Israel, you have destroyed yourself; but in me is your help.

  • Jer 31:9
    71%

    9 They shall come with weeping, and with supplications I will lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, in which they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

  • Jer 18:8
    71%

    8 If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turns from their evil, I will relent of the evil that I thought to do to them.

  • Ezek 14:11
    71%

    11 That the house of Israel may no longer go astray from me, nor be polluted anymore with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, says the Lord GOD.

  • Ezek 14:5
    71%

    5 That I may seize the house of Israel in their own hearts because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

  • Jer 11:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10 They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.

    11 Therefore thus says the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they cry to me, I will not listen to them.

  • Isa 63:15
    71%

    15 Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory: where is your zeal and your strength, the yearning of your heart and your mercies toward me? Are they restrained?

  • Hos 13:11
    71%

    11 I gave you a king in my anger, and took him away in my wrath.

  • Jer 6:8
    71%

    8 Be instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from you; lest I make you desolate, a land not inhabited.

  • Hos 14:1
    71%

    1 O Israel, return to the LORD your God; for you have fallen by your iniquity.

  • Ezek 22:31
    71%

    31 Therefore have I poured out My indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, says the Lord GOD.

  • Zech 8:14
    71%

    14 For thus says the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked Me to wrath, says the LORD of hosts, and I did not relent:

  • Hos 11:3
    71%

    3 I also taught Ephraim to walk, taking them by their arms; but they did not know that I healed them.

  • Hos 10:10
    71%

    10 It is my desire that I should discipline them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they bind themselves in their two furrows.

  • Amos 9:8
    70%

    8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth, except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, says the LORD.

  • Jer 9:9
    70%

    9 Shall I not visit them for these things? says the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

  • Jer 3:14
    70%

    14 Turn, O backsliding children, says the LORD; for I am married to you: and I will take you, one from a city, and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

  • Amos 7:3
    70%

    3 The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, says the LORD.

  • Joel 2:13
    70%

    13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and he repents of the evil.

  • Isa 31:6
    70%

    6 Turn to Him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.

  • Jer 7:15
    70%

    15 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.

  • Lam 1:20
    70%

    20 Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my heart is troubled; my heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaves, at home there is as death.

  • Isa 54:8
    70%

    8 In a little wrath I hid my face from you for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on you, says the LORD your Redeemer.

  • Jer 2:31
    70%

    31 O generation, behold the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? a land of darkness? why do my people say, We are lords; we will come no more to you?

  • 2 Chr 29:10
    70%

    10 Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that His fierce wrath may turn away from us.

  • Amos 1:11
    70%

    11 Thus says the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all pity, and his anger tore perpetually, and he kept his wrath forever: