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.