Hosea - Chapter 11 | English Standard Version

  • 1. When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.
  • 2. The more they were called, the more they went away; they kept sacrificing to the Baals and burning offerings to idols.
  • 3. Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk; I took them up by their arms, but they did not know that I healed them.
  • 4. I led them with cords of kindness, with the bands of love, and I became to them as one who eases the yoke on their jaws, and I bent down to them and fed them.
  • 5. They shall not return to the land of Egypt, but Assyria shall be their king, because they have refused to return to me.
  • 6. The sword shall rage against their cities, consume the bars of their gates, and devour them because of their own counsels.
  • 7. My people are bent on turning away from me, and though they call out to the Most High, he shall not raise them up at all.
  • 8. How can I give you up, O Ephraim? How can I hand you over, O Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart recoils within me; my compassion grows warm and tender.
  • 9. I will not execute my burning anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am God and not a man, the Holy One in your midst, and I will not come in wrath.
  • 10. They shall go after the LORD; he will roar like a lion; when he roars, his children shall come trembling from the west;
  • 11. they shall come trembling like birds from Egypt, and like doves from the land of Assyria, and I will return them to their homes, declares the LORD.
  • 12. Ephraim has surrounded me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit, but Judah still walks with God and is faithful to the Holy One.
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