Hosea, 11

¹ “When Israel was a boy,^*1 then I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.

² “They^*1 called them. To that same extent they went away from before them.^*2 To the Baʹal images^*3 they took up sacrificing, and to the graven images they began making sacrificial smoke.

³ But as for me, I taught Eʹphra·im to walk, taking them upon [my]^*1 arms; and they did not recognize that I had healed them.

⁴ With the ropes of earthling man^*1 I kept drawing them, with the cords of love, so that I became to them as those lifting off a yoke on their jaws, and gently I brought food to [each] one.

⁵ He will not return to the land of Egypt, but As·syrʹi·a will be his king, because they refused to return.

⁶ And a sword will certainly whirl about in his cities and make an end of his bars and devour because of their counsels.

⁷ And my people are tending toward unfaithfulness to me. And upward^*1 they call it;^*2 no one at all does any rising up.^*3

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.

⁹ I shall not express my burning anger. I shall not bring Eʹphra·im to ruin again, for I am God^*1 and not man,^*2 the Holy One in the midst of you; and I shall not come in excitement.

¹⁰ After Jehovah they will walk. Like a lion he will roar; for he himself will roar, and sons will come trembling from the west.

¹¹ Like a bird they will come trembling out of Egypt, and like a dove out of the land of As·syrʹi·a; and I shall certainly make them dwell in their houses,” is the utterance of Jehovah.

¹² “With lying, Eʹphra·im has surrounded me, and with deception the house of Israel. But Judah is yet roaming with God,^*1 and with the Most Holy One^*2 he is trustworthy.”^*3