Hosea 11:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

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.

📖 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

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  I will not carry out My fierce anger; I will not destroy Ephraim again. For I am God, and not a man—the Holy One among you. I will not come in wrath.

• King James Version 1769 (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 ly One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  I will not execute{H6213} the fierceness{H2740} of mine anger,{H639} I will not return{H7725} to destroy{H7843} Ephraim:{H669} for I am God,{H410} and not man;{H376} the Holy One{H6918} in the midst{H7130} of thee; and I will not come{H935} in wrath.{H5892}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  I will not execute{H6213}{(H8799)} the fierceness{H2740} of mine anger{H639}, I will not return{H7725}{(H8799)} to destroy{H7843}{(H8763)} Ephraim{H669}: for I am God{H410}, and not man{H376}; the Holy One{H6918} in the midst{H7130} of thee: and I will not enter{H935}{(H8799)} into the city{H5892}.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  therfore haue I not turned me to destroye Ephraim in my wrothful displeasure. For I am God and no man, I am euen that holy one in the myddest of the, though I came not within the cite.

• 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.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  I wyll not execute the fiercenesse of my wrath, I wyl not returne to destroy Ephraim: for I am God and not man, the holy one in the middest of thee, and I wyll not enter into the citie.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  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.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  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.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  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,

• American Standard Version (1901)

  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.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  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.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  I will not put into effect the heat of my wrath; I will not again send destruction on Ephraim; for I am God and not man, the Holy One among you; I will not put an end to you.

• World English Bible (2000)

  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.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  I cannot carry out my fierce anger! I cannot totally destroy Ephraim! Because I am God, and not man– the Holy One among you– I will not come in wrath!

Referenced Verses

• Num 23:19 : 19 God is not a man, that he should lie; nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?
• Isa 12:6 : 6 Cry out and shout, inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of you.
• Jer 30:11 : 11 For I am with you, says the LORD, to save you: though I make a full end of all nations where I have scattered you, yet I will not make a full end of you; but I will correct you in due measure, and will not leave you altogether unpunished.
• Exod 32:10-14 : 10 Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation." 11 Moses entreated the LORD his God, and said, "LORD, why does Your wrath burn hot against Your people, whom You have brought forth from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? 12 Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, 'He brought them out with evil intent, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth'? Turn from Your fierce wrath, and relent from this evil against Your people. 13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants, to whom You swore by Your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.'" 14 So the LORD relented from the evil which He thought to do to His people.
• Isa 55:8-9 : 8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the LORD. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
• Mal 3:6 : 6 For I am the LORD, I do not change; therefore you sons of Jacob are not consumed.
• Rom 11:28-29 : 28 Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are beloved for the sake of the fathers. 29 For the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable.
• Isa 27:4-8 : 4 Fury is not in Me: who would set briers and thorns against Me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together. 5 Or let him take hold of My strength, that he may make peace with Me; and he shall make peace with Me. 6 Those who come from Jacob shall take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit. 7 Has He smitten him, as He smote those that smote him? Or is he slain according to the slaughter of those that are slain by Him? 8 In measure, when it shoots forth, You will debate with it: He restrains His rough wind in the day of the east wind.
• Isa 48:9 : 9 For my name's sake I will defer my anger, and for my praise I will restrain it for you, that I do not cut you off.
• Deut 13:17 : 17 And there shall cling nothing of the cursed thing to your hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion upon you, and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers;
• Deut 32:26-27 : 26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men: 27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should misbehave themselves, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD has not done all this.
• 1 Sam 26:8 : 8 Then Abishai said to David, "God has delivered your enemy into your hand this day. Now, therefore, let me strike him with the spear to the ground with one stroke, and I will not strike him a second time."
• 2 Sam 20:10 : 10 But Amasa did not notice the sword in Joab’s hand, so Joab struck him in the stomach, spilling his intestines to the ground. He did not strike him again, and Amasa died. Joab and his brother Abishai then pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.
• Ps 78:38 : 38 But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and did not destroy them: yes, many a time he turned away his anger, and did not stir up all his wrath.
• Jer 31:1-3 : 1 At that time, says the LORD, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people. 2 Thus says the LORD, The people who survived the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to give him rest. 3 The LORD appeared to me long ago, saying, Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn you.
• Ezek 20:8-9 : 8 But they rebelled against me, and would not listen to me: they did not cast away every man the abominations of their eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt. 9 But I acted for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known to them, in bringing them out of the land of Egypt.
• Ezek 20:13-14 : 13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they did not walk in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man does, he shall even live in them; and they greatly polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them. 14 But I acted for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.
• Ezek 20:21-23 : 21 Nevertheless the children rebelled against me: they did not walk in my statutes, nor kept my judgments to do them, which if a man does, 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. 22 Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and acted for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out. 23 I lifted up my hand to them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;
• Ezek 37:27-28 : 27 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yes, I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 28 And the nations shall know that I the LORD sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them forevermore.
• Hos 14:4 : 4 I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for my anger is turned away from him.
• Mic 7:18-20 : 18 Who is a God like you, that pardons iniquity, and passes by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in mercy. 19 He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. 20 You will perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
• Zeph 3:15-17 : 15 The LORD has taken away your judgments, he has cast out your enemy: the king of Israel, even the LORD, is in the midst of you: you shall see evil no more. 16 In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear not: and to Zion, Let not your hands be weak. 17 The LORD your God in the midst of you is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over you with joy; he will rest in his love, he will rejoice over you with singing.