Hosea 11:1 - 11:7

When Israel was a youth I loved him,

And out of Egypt I called My son.

The more they called them,

The more they went from them;

They kept sacrificing to the Baals

And burning incense to graven images.

Yet it is I who taught Ephraim to walk;

I took them in My arms;

But they did not know that I healed them.

I led them with cords of a man, with bonds of love,

And I became to them as one who lifts the yoke from their jaws;

And I bent down and fed them.

They will not return to the land of Egypt;

But Assyria—he will be their king

Because they refused to return to Me.

And the sword will whirl against their cities

And will consume their gate bars

And devour them because of their counsels.

So My people are hung up on turning from Me.

Though they call them to the One on high,

None at all exalts Him.