Hosea 11:9-11

International Children’s Bible

⁹ I won’t punish you in my anger.
    I won’t destroy Israel again.
I am God and not man.
    I am the Holy One, and I am among you.
    I will not come against you in anger.
¹⁰ I will call for my people like
    a lion calling for its young.
My children will come and follow me.
    They will hurry to me from the west.
¹¹ They will come swiftly
    like birds from a captivity like Egypt was,
    and like doves from Assyria.
I will settle them again in their homes,”
    says the Lord.