Hosea 11:9

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Summary

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.

Not execute

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1 Samuel 26:8

2 Samuel 20:10

General references

Jeremiah 50:40

Bible References

Not execute

I will heal their apostasy! I will love them freely for my anger has turned away from them.

Now let me alone. Let my anger burn against them. I am so angry with them I am going to destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation.

I would have said: 'I will cut them to pieces. I will remove the memory of them from men.'

But he is compassionate. He forgave their sin. He did not destroy them. He restrained his anger many times. He did not display all of his fury.

I am not angry. If only there were briers and thorns confronting me! I would march against them in battle. I would set them all on fire.

For my name's sake I will be patient. For my glory's sake I will hold my anger back from you, and not destroy you.

I am with you. I will rescue you, declares Jehovah. I will completely destroy all the nations where I scattered you, but I will not completely destroy you. I will correct you with justice. I will not let you go entirely unpunished.

Jehovah proclaims: At that time I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.

They defied me and refused to listen. They did not throw away their disgusting idols or give up the Egyptian gods. I was ready to let them feel the full force of my anger there in Egypt.

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Abishai said to David: God put your enemy in your power tonight. Let me plunge his own spear through him and pin him to the ground. I will do it with just one blow. I will not have to strike twice!

Amasa was not on guard against the sword in Joab's left hand. Joab stabbed him in the stomach. Then he stabbed him in his intestines and they poured out on the ground. He died without being stabbed again. Then Joab and his brother Abishai pursued Sheba son of Bichri.

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Babylon will be like Sodom and Gomorrah, and their neighboring cities when I, God, destroyed them. No one will live there. No human will stay there, proclaims Jehovah.