Your calf, O Samaria, has cast you off; my anger is kindled against them: how long will it be before they attain to innocence?

I will not execute the fierceness of my anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of you: and I will not enter into the city.

Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with us;

Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his bloodguilt upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him.

I gave you a king in my anger, and took him away in my wrath.

I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for my anger has turned away from him.