Hosea 11:9

God will not give full vent to his anger or destroy Ephraim, because he is the holy God, not a man. It magnifies God's faithful, covenant-keeping mercy.

Cross-references · 22

• Num 23:19God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
• Mic 7:18–20Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
• Isa 55:8–9“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.
• Isa 12:6Cry out and sing, O citizen of Zion, for great among you is the Holy One of Israel.”
• Jer 30:11For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have scattered you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means leave you unpunished.”
• Mal 3:6“Because I, the LORD, do not change, you descendants of Jacob have not been destroyed.
• Ezek 37:27–28My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be My people.
• Hos 14:4I will heal their apostasy; I will freely love them, for My anger has turned away from them.
• Zeph 3:15–17The LORD has taken away your punishment; He has turned back your enemy. Israel’s King, the LORD, is among you; no longer will you fear any harm.
• Rom 11:28–29Regarding the gospel, they are enemies on your account; but regarding election, they are loved on account of the patriarchs.
• Jer 31:1–3“At that time,” declares the LORD, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be My people.”
• 1 Sam 26:8Abishai said to David, “Today God has delivered your enemy into your hand. Now, therefore, please let me thrust the spear through him into the ground with one stroke. I will not need to strike him twice!”
• Deut 32:26–27I would have said that I would cut them to pieces and blot out their memory from mankind,
• Deut 13:17Nothing devoted to destruction shall cling to your hands, so that the LORD will turn from His fierce anger, grant you mercy, show you compassion, and multiply you as He swore to your fathers,
• Exod 32:10–14Now leave Me alone, so that My anger may burn against them and consume them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”
• 2 Sam 20:10Amasa was not on guard against the dagger in Joab’s hand, and Joab stabbed him in the stomach and spilled out his intestines on the ground. And Joab did not need to strike him again, for Amasa was dead. Then Joab and his brother Abishai pursued Sheba son of Bichri.
• Ezek 20:21–23But the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they profaned My Sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the wilderness.
• Isa 27:4–8I am not angry. If only thorns and briers confronted Me, I would march and trample them, I would burn them to the ground.
• Ezek 20:13–14Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not follow My statutes and they rejected My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they utterly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and put an end to them in the wilderness.
• Ezek 20:8–9But they rebelled against Me and refused to listen. None of them cast away the abominations before their eyes, and they did not forsake the idols of Egypt. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the land of Egypt.
• Isa 48:9For the sake of My name I will delay My wrath; for the sake of My praise I will restrain it, so that you will not be cut off.
• Ps 78:38And yet He was compassionate; He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often restrained His anger and did not unleash His full wrath.

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