How shall I give you up, Ephraim? — “God is infinitely just and infinitely merciful. The two attributes are so united in Him, indee…

In the depth of despair, the prophet delivers one of the most poignant passages in Hebrew prophecy. On the darkest cloud gleams the bow of promise.…

And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the Most High, none at all would exalt him. How shall I give you up, …

Here God consults what He would do with the people: and first, indeed, He shows that it was His purpose to execute vengeance, such as the Israelite…

How shall I give you up, Ephraim? [how] shall I deliver you,
Israel?

God is slow to anger and is unwilling to abandon a people to utter ruin who have been called by His name. When God was to give a sacrifice for sin …