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Osea chapter 11 verses 8 and 9.

How can I give you up, oh Ephraim?

How can I hand you over, O Israel? How can I make you like Adma? How can I treat you like

Zebuim? My heart recoils within me. My compassion grows warm and tender. I will not execute my

burning anger. I will not again destroy Ephraim. For I am God and not a man, the holy one in your midst, and I will not come in wrath.

This chapter is one of the most beautiful pictures of God's love.

I would say in all of the Bible, it starts from the very beginning in

was a chapter 11 verse 1 when God speaks of his people Israel. And son, a whole picture here, just like we've seen in

Hosea, a picture of God's love for his people,

like a husband's love for his wife,

and specifically in

Jose, an unfaithful wife.

But here the imagery shifts from the love of a father

for his son.

Just the imagery throughout this chapter specifically talks about just how God raised up his

how God raised up his people as his child,

like taught them to walk, took them by the arms, and wrapped them in cords of kindness and bands of love.

It's such a powerful picture.

And so this is God speaking to his people who were totally defying him, who were turning from him to all kinds of

idols and in all kinds of immorality and yet God says I love you listen to the language here in

Jose 11 8 my heart recoils within me my compassion grows warm and tender. Is this not awesome that the holy God of the universe

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