“How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused.
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The God who grieved over drowning a violent world also cries out over Ephraim with His heart turned within Him, proving divine judgment always flows through grief, not indifference.
“Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.”