7. Yea, my people are bent upon backsliding from me: though they call them to the Most High, none at all exalteth him.
8. How shall I give thee over, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee up, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? My heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together.
9. I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am ·God and not man, --the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not come in anger.
10. They shall walk after Jehovah; he shall roar like a lion; when he shall roar, then the children shall hasten from the west:
11. they shall hasten as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria; and I will cause them to dwell in their houses, saith Jehovah.
12. Ephraim encompasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit; but Judah yet walketh with ·God and with the holy things of truth.