8. “Israel, I don’t want to give you up.I don’t want to go away and leave you.I don’t want to make you like Admah.I don’t want to treat you like Zeboiim.My heart beats for you.My love for you stirs up my pity.
9. I won’t punish you in my anger.I won’t destroy Israel again.I am God and not man.I am the Holy One, and I am among you.I will not come against you in anger.
10. I will call for my people likea lion calling for its young.My children will come and follow me.They will hurry to me from the west.
11. They will come swiftlylike birds from a captivity like Egypt was,and like doves from Assyria.I will settle them again in their homes,”says the Lord.
12. Israel has surrounded me with lies.The people of Israel have made their secret plans.And Judah turns against God,the faithful Holy One.