Hosea
11 “When Israel was a boy,* then I loved him,+ and out of Egypt I called my son.+
2 “They* called them.+ To that same extent they went away from before them.*+ To the Baʹal images* 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]* arms;+ and they did not recognize that I had healed them.+ 4 With the ropes of earthling man* 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* they call it;* no one at all does any rising up.*
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*+ and not man,* 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,*+ and with the Most Holy One* he is trustworthy.”*