Hosea 11:8

deliver thee Not in the sense of ὑπερασπιῶ of the Sept., but in that of Symmachus" ἐκδώσω. Better, surrender thee.

Admah … Zeboim Hosea, like the author of Deuteronomy 29:23, derives his knowledge of the overthrow of the -cities of the plain" from a tradition independent of that in Genesis 19. For another instance of such independent knowledge, see Hosea 12:3-5.

my repentings are kindled together Even this inaccurate rendering cannot quite conceal the fine intuition of the prophet. By partly humanizing God's nature, he as it were divinizes man's. Human sympathy is but a rill from the mighty stream of God's tender mercy. A closer rendering would be, I am wholly overcome with sympathy. The Hebrew idiom however is different -my sympathies are wholly overcome." Almost the same phrase occurs in Genesis 43:20, -his compassions were overcome towards his brother." [The word rendered -are overcome" (nik'meru) has the closest affinity with the Assyrian kamâru-to throw down", referred to in the note on Hosea 10:5 in explanation of k'mârîm-(idolatrous) priests."] In Jeremiah 15:6 a different but equally anthropomorphic expression is ascribed to Jehovah -I am weary of sympathizing."