Hosea 11:1-5

1. 1 When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

2. 2 As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

3. 3 I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.

4. 4 I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.

5. 5 He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.

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