I granted ¹  you a king in my anger, and I will take him away in my wrath!

“I will heal their waywardness ¹  and love them freely, ²  for my anger will turn ³  away from them.

O Samaria, he has rejected your calf idol! My anger burns against them! They will not survive much longer without being punished, ¹  even though they are Israelites!

I cannot carry out ¹  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!

But Ephraim bitterly ¹  provoked him to anger; so he will hold him accountable for the blood he has shed, ²  his Lord ³  will repay him for the contempt he has shown. ⁴ 

They approach him, all the while plotting against him. Their hearts are like an oven; their anger smolders all night long, but in the morning it bursts into a flaming fire.

The princes of Judah are like those who move boundary markers. I will pour out my rage on them like a torrential flood! ¹