He hath cast off thy calf, O Samaria; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?

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.

yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him at Beth-el, and there he spake with us,

Ephraim hath provoked to anger most bitterly: therefore shall his blood be left upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him.

I have given thee a king in mine anger, and have taken him away in my wrath.

I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely; for mine anger is turned away from him.