And to you and your future offspring(A) I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession,(B) and I will be their God.”

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The whole land of Canaan,(A) where you now reside as a foreigner,(B) I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you;(C) and I will be their God.(D)

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22 “Therefore, say to the house of Israel: This is what the Lord God says: It is not for your sake that I will act,(A) house of Israel, but for My holy name,(B) which you profaned among the nations where you went.

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22 “Therefore say to the Israelites, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: It is not for your sake, people of Israel, that I am going to do these things, but for the sake of my holy name,(A) which you have profaned(B) among the nations where you have gone.(C)

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How can I give you up, Ephraim?(A)
How can I surrender you, Israel?
How can I make you like Admah?(B)
How can I treat you like Zeboiim?(C)
I have had a change of heart;
My compassion is stirred!
I will not vent the full fury of My anger;(D)
I will not turn back to destroy Ephraim.(E)
For I am God and not man,
the Holy One among you;(F)
I will not come in rage.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 11:9 Or come into any city; Hb obscure

“How can I give you up,(A) Ephraim?(B)
    How can I hand you over, Israel?
How can I treat you like Admah?
    How can I make you like Zeboyim?(C)
My heart is changed within me;
    all my compassion(D) is aroused.(E)
I will not carry out my fierce anger,(F)
    nor will I devastate(G) Ephraim again.
For I am God, and not a man(H)
    the Holy One(I) among you.
    I will not come against their cities.

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Though I sow(A) them among the nations,
they will remember(B) Me in the distant lands;
they and their children will live and return.

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Though I scatter them among the peoples,
    yet in distant lands they will remember me.(A)
They and their children will survive,
    and they will return.

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