Yet it was (A)I who taught Ephraim to walk;
    I took them up by their arms,
    but they did not know that (B)I healed them.
(C)I led them with cords of kindness,[a]
    with the bands of love,
and (D)I became to them as one who eases the yoke on their jaws,
    and (E)I bent down to them and fed them.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 11:4 Or humaneness; Hebrew man

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