Hosea 11:1-4 ▼

1 When Israel was a youth I loved him, And out of Egypt I called My son.

2 The more they called them, The more they went away from them; They kept sacrificing to the Baals And burning incense to idols.

3 Yet it is I who taught Ephraim to walk, I took them in My arms; But they did not know that I healed them.

4 I pulled them along with cords of a man, with ropes of love, And I became to them as one who lifts the yoke from their jaws; And I bent down and fed them.