Tune: Herongate
(\'It is a thing most wonderful\')
Hosea 11 v.8-9
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The Lord says, Now how shall I give
You up, my people? You shall live
In my sight, not as days of old
When stories of destruction told
For cities around the Dead Sea
Admah, Zeboim midst them be
Destroyed for their sins, but I shall
Not treat you like them, you fare well
My heart within me it is turned
And my emptions they are churned
For you deserving punishment
But from it here I shall relent
My repentings, my sympathy
It kindled together, so be
It be stirred in me, I will not
Vent my anger, peaceful your lot
I will not destroy my people
For I am God, they shall not fall
The Holy One among you I
Be, you shall know my mercies nigh