Hosea 11:1-4 ▼

1 When Israel was a young man, I loved him like a son, and I summoned my son out of Egypt.

2 But the more I summoned them, the farther they departed from me. They sacrificed to the Baal idols and burned incense to images.

3 Yet it was I who led Ephraim, I took them by the arm; but they did not acknowledge that I had healed them.

4 I led them with leather cords, with leather ropes; I lifted the yoke from their neck, and gently fed them.