...nature. Yahweh 's love and loyalty could not destroy absolutely: How can I give you up, O Kphraim! How can I hand you over, O Israel! . . . My heart...recoils within me, my compassion grows warm and tender. (Hos. 11:8.) Hosea spoke of Yahweh's redoing the old deeds of Israel's salvation, alluring her again...

...them . . ." (Ex. 3:7-8). There is the sobbing refusal to give up even a faithless people to judgment: How can I give you up, O Ephraim! How can I hand you...recoils within me, my compassion grows warm and tender. (Hos. 11:8.) There is the invitation to all who hunger and thirst for more than this life offers: "Ho,...

...can I treat you like Zeboiiml My heart recoils within me, my compassion grows warm and tender. 9 1 will not execute my fierce anger, I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am Cod and not man, the Holy One in your midst, and I will not come to destroy. —Hosea 11:8-9 Discussion...

...God was sensitive and compassionate: My heart is turned within Me, My compassion grows like a flame. I will not execute my fierce anger, I will not again destroy Ephraim; (11.8-Heschel's translation) God is tender toward people like a mother who conceives a son; while the...

...of his soul has a love which is fickle, which does not return the love so lavishly extended to it. "How can I give you up, O Ephraim?! How can I hand you over, O Israel?!" (Hos. 11:8). The pathos of God in these questions is a part of the larger context; it draws upon the...

...bent on turning away from me; so they are appointed to the yoke, and none shall remove it. 8How can 1 give you up, O Ephraim! How can I hand you over, O Israel! How can I make you like Admah! How can I treat you like Zeboiim! My heart recoils within me, my compassion...

...added)" Again the cry of Godly hurt becomes audible in his confession of need for the Hebrew people: How can I give you up, O Ephraim! How can I hand you over, O Israel! (Hosea 1 1:8) Thus the idol provides the external image of a body while lacking the interior requirement,...

...11 in profoundly human terms: "It was I who taught Ephraim to walk, I took them up in my arms. . . . How can I give you up, O Ephraim! How can I hand you...over, O Israel! . . . My heart recoils within me. ... I will not execute my fierce anger, I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am God and not man,...

...affection, loving-kindness, patient nurture, then your desperate cry — How can I give you up. ... My compassion grows warm and tender. . . . I will not execute my fierce anger . . . for I am God and not man, the Holy One in your midst, and I will not come to destroy — a cry...

...longing: "I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies" (Amos 5:21); "How can I give you up, O Ephraim! How can I hand...recoils within me, my compassion grows warm and tender" (Hosea 11:8). Jeremiah describes God as adapting his plans to human decisions. God promises to "repent...