Hosea 11:9
I do not do the fierceness of My anger, || I do not turn back to destroy Ephraim, || For I [am] God, and not a man—The Holy One in your midst, and I do not enter in enmity.
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In Context
10They go after YHWH—He roars as a lion, || When He roars, then the sons from the west tremble.
Cross References
Numbers 23:19God [is] not a man—and lies, || And a son of man—and relents! Has He said—and He does not do [it]? And spoken—and He does not confirm it?
Deuteronomy 32:26I have said: I blow them away, || I cause their remembrance to cease from man;
2 Samuel 20:10and Amasa has not been watchful of the sword that [is] in the hand of Joab, and he strikes him with it to the fifth [rib], and sheds out his bowels to the earth, and he has not repeated [it] to him, and he dies; and Joab and his brother Abishai have pursued after Sheba son of Bichri.
Psalms 85:4Turn back [to] us, O God of our salvation, || And make void Your anger with us.
Isaiah 27:4Fury is not in Me; Who gives Me a brier—a thorn in battle? I step into it, || I burn it at once.
Isaiah 55:8“For My thoughts [are] not your thoughts, || Nor your ways My ways,” || A declaration of YHWH,
Matthew Henry on Hosea 11:9-12
The Divine Forbearance. ( b. c. 730.) 8 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. 9 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. 10 They shall walk after the Lord : he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the… Read the whole commentary →