Hosea 11:3-7

1. 3 I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.

2. 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.

3. 5 He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.

4. 6 And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.

5. 7 And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.

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