Let Samaria throw out his calf idol. My anger burns against them. How long will it be until they are capable of purity?

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 come in wrath.

Indeed, he struggled with the angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication to him. He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with us,

Ephraim has bitterly provoked anger. Therefore his blood will be left on him, and his Lord will repay his contempt.

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

"I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from him.