Hosea 10:9

Failure to Learn from the Sin and Judgment of Gibeah

10:9 O Israel, you have sinned since the time ¹  of Gibeah,

and there you have remained.

Did not war overtake the evildoers in Gibeah?

Hosea 11:9

11:9 I cannot carry out ²  my fierce anger!

I cannot totally destroy Ephraim!

Because I am God, and not man – the Holy One among you –

I will not come in wrath!

[10:9]  ¹ tn Heb “days” (so KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV).

[11:9]  ² tn The three imperfect verbs function as imperfects of capability, similar to the imperfects of capability in 11:8. See IBHS 564 §34.1a.