8 “How can I give you up, O Eʹphra·im?+ [How] can I deliver you up, O Israel?+ How can I set you as Adʹmah?+ [How] can I place you like Ze·boiʹim?+ My heart has changed within me;+ at the same time my compassions have grown hot.
10 And the [true] God got to see their works,+ that they had turned back from their bad way;+ and so the [true] God felt regret+ over the calamity that he had spoken of causing to them; and he did not cause [it].+
16 Therefore openly confess+YOUR sins to one another and pray for one another, that YOU may get healed.+ A righteous man’s supplication, when it is at work,* has much force.+