Commentaries:
God asks rhetorically, "How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel?" He goes on to explain that He will roar like a lion, and "then His sons shall come trembling from the west."
Charles Whitaker
Searching for Israel (Part Eight): The Scattering of Ten-Tribed Israel
Other Forerunner Commentary entries containing Hosea 11:9:
2 Kings 17:6
Amos 1:2